“All the Great Books (Abridged)” playing in California
The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s show “All the Great Books (Abridged),” which includes references to Jane Austen (though we don’t know if it’s just a mention in passing or something more in-depth), is playing this weekend at the Napa Valley Opera House.
Works from Jane Austen to Mark Twain aren’t spared from the skewering, which takes the original works and compresses them into shorter passages, with wit, humor and punctuation thrown in.
Shows are tonight (Friday) and Saturday night at 8 p.m. and at 3 p.m. on Sunday. It sounds to us like something Jane herself would have heartily enjoyed. If you get to see it, send us your review!
February 4th, 2005 at 2:59 pm
I saw this show in NYC a few years back, and it was hilarious. I honestly don’t remember any references to Jane Austen, and so cannot report on them. But I can verify that the show is worth seeing. Even without references to JA.