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highlights from local critics reviews - (click link at bottom of each review to read complete review)
Click here for more information on this production that runs through September 30th.
"give the Bard a beatdown with nonstop punch lines...it never gets old, partly because the flexible script allows for ad-libs and updated pop-culture references, and partly because of the enduring comic appeal of having a 14-year-old Juliet played by a man. ..The cast is terrific, with Alexis Baigue as a supercilious scholar, Louis Farber as a bro-doofus and Breona Conrad making the most of her straight-man parts while getting in plenty of yuks on her own....is merciless in spoofing a literary giant ... but a love for Shakespeare shines through every double-entendre and sight gag. " - Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic (click here to read the complete review)
" Uproarious and played to comic perfection, THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) is opening Southwest Shakespeare Company's 24th Season with a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino...Breona Conrad (brilliant!), Louis Farber (brilliant!), and Alexis Baigue (brilliant!) deliver tour de force performances ~ replete with gibes, gambols, songs and flashes of merriment ~ that would make poor Yorick proud and set the audience on a euphoric roar. ...
Between the madcap parody of Romeo and Juliet and the insane rounds of Hamlet, the actors cut, paste, and improvise scenes from the Bard's 37 plays, each of which is seasoned with puns, ribaldry, and double entendres. ...Given the energy of her three actors, it may be a wonder that director Debra K. Stevens could keep them in tow. But, to the credit of this highly regarded actor/director, she does in what is unequivocally a well-paced (albeit on steroids) and superlative show...a novel and enjoyable way to present the works, to make them accessible and perhaps better understood. Indeed, a digest that is highly digestible! To wit, you may leave with a belly full of laughs, but you will certainly be hungry for more of the Bard." - Herbert Paine, Broadway World (click here to read the complete review)
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