The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

Since Shakespeare's complete works - 37 pieces - all require 120 hours for a performance, the American Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield 's complete works ( slightly abridged ) came up with the idea to write Shakespeare. Together they form the RSC, the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and perform all Shakespeare's plays on threes - one evening. The premiere of the play took place in 1987 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe instead.

Methods of " saving time " are to compress similar topics to a piece or to give an actor several roles he plays at the same time. Also, all comedies that are " less funny " known as the tragedies, were combined into one piece. The histories are finally discharged as football games, during which King Lear is disqualified as a " fictional character ". Shakespeare's complete works ( slightly abridged ) is all over the world - has become a very successful stage play - but especially in London.

Under German theater people, the piece was first because of the many puns and allusions from the English culture as untranslatable, to Dorothea Renckhoff it transmitted on behalf of Christoph Köhler for the Theaterverlag Felix Bloch Erben into German. In its 1997 version of the German -language premiere was on spectacle Essen and at the Residenz Theater Munich staging of Daniel Karasek, by the piece in Germany cult. Since then, the Shakespearean Medley has gone into Renckhoffs transfer to more than 50 theaters in the German scene, constantly experiencing new concepts and is available to many homes over the years on the plan (eg at the Berlin vagrants stage since 1997).