Why see all 37 Shakespeare plays when there’s one that does it all? The Complete Works of Shakespeare—Abridged, written by the founding members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, zooms through the iconic playwright’s oeuvre in a whirlwind 97 minutes. Some critics call their style “New Vaudeville” because it condenses so many topics and stories at a fast and seemingly improvisational pace. Will Ophelia meet Juliet in a bog? Will Hamlet appear as a sprite? As the company states, anything can happen with these “madcap performers” in charge, and “no one needs to know all of the Bard’s works…they don’t either.”
Wed-Fri, Various Times, $18+
Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga
