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3 | ->''"We think old Bill's too stuffy, he needs to loosen,\ |
4 | So we take his boring plays and we reduce 'em!\ |
5 | The poetry, the subplots, the imagery that's illing,\ |
6 | And we get right down to the sex and killing!"'' |
7 | -->--"'''We Take It OTT (The RSC)'''" from ''The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show'' |
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9 | The Reduced Shakespeare Company is an American comedy group founded by Daniel Singer, with the initial members being himself, Adam Long, and Jess Borgeson (today Creator/JessWinfield). They specialise in taking vast bodies of work (not limiting themselves to [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]]), that would take days to see in their entirety, whittling them down to the bare essentials, then whittling them down a bit further and filling the gaps with jokes. They arguably invented TheAbridgedSeries formula, also heavily employing TheAbridgedHistory. |
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11 | Their members can be blamed for producing these plays: |
12 | * ''[[Theatre/TheCompleteWorksOfWilliamShakespeareAbridged The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)]]'' |
13 | * ''The Complete History of America (abridged)'' |
14 | * ''[[Theatre/TheBibleTheCompleteWordOfGodAbridged The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)]]'' |
15 | * ''The Complete Millennium Musical (abridged)'' |
16 | * ''All the Great Books (abridged)'' |
17 | * ''Completely Hollywood (abridged)'' |
18 | * ''The Complete World of Sports (abridged)'' |
19 | * ''Franchise/StarWars Shortened'' |
20 | * ''Series/{{Lost}} Reduced'' - Covers the first five seasons, and was televised before the sixth season premiere. |
21 | * ''The Ring Reduced'' - Televised as part of Creator/Channel4's Music/RichardWagner season. |
22 | * ''Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)'' - An amalgam of all the plays, supposedly written before he had the idea of separating them out. |
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24 | They also made ''The Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show'' for Creator/TheBBC World Service, which was ''The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged)'' reformatted into six half-hour radio episodes (examples for the radio show are currently placed in the main Shakespeare show's page). Although not strictly RSC shows, founder Adam Long made four Reduced-style quarter-hour shows for BBC Radio 4 about [[UsefulNotes/BritishPoliticalSystem British politics]] under the title ''The Condensed History of...'' (the three main parties and Big Ben). |
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