photo by Carol Pratt/Scott Bushnell
Adam Long, Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor
with additional material by Matthew Croke
“...There is no doubt about it, these three lads are in a league of
their own when it comes to vivid originality in the show... They have sublime
moments of surreal theatricality.... Sly minds are at work throughout. Posing
the theological question: Does God have a sense of humor? they prove that
undoubtedly he has. Why else would he have left the Children of Israel to wander
the Middle East for forty years and then give them the only bit of land with no
oil on it?”
Jack Tinker, Daily Mail (London)
“...That
apocalyptic roller-coaster of sex, violence, murder and miracles--the Bible--has
been abridged by three American sinners. And verily this blasphemous, hilarious
zip through the Old and New Testaments will henceforth be proclaimed as THE
BIBLE: THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD (abridged).... Not even the most somber, uptight
Scientologist could take offense at this snappy, slick and utterly entertaining
show....”
Sunday Express (London)
“`In
the beginning,' a godlike voice informs us, `there was chaos.' But why stop
there? The disorder continues throughout the middle and end of THE BIBLE: THE
COMPLETE WORD OF GOD (abridged) until the neat rows of audience have dissolved
hysterically into the aisles. In spoofing the book they call `the greatest story
ever accepted as fact,' The Reduced Shakespeare Company combines shtick,
wordplay, physical humor, sight gags, audience participation and jokes so
old.... ...gleefully give in to the giggles and the guffaws and, indeed, the
buffoonery is hard to resist....”
Ron Weiskind, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
“In the beginning there was THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
(ABRIDGED). And it was good. And SHAKESPEARE begat THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF
AMERICA (abridged). And that was good, too. And now AMERICA has begat
(begotten?, begetted?...whatever) THE BIBLE: THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD
(abridged), and damned if it isn't the funniest of the lot....”
Bob Mondello, CityPaper (Washington)
originally produced by The Reduced Shakespeare Company
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