Reduced Shakespeare's THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED) Set for Wharton Center

Just in time for the election, the REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY returns with a new show featuring 600 years of history in 6,000 seconds! This hilarious troupe will perform on both Wednesday, September 28, and Thursday, September 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Wharton Center's Pasant Theatre. Tickets are available at the official source to purchase Wharton Center tickets online, whartoncenter.com, at the Auto-Owners Insurance Ticket Office, or by calling 1-800-WHARTON.

Founded in 1981, the REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY has toured extensively across America bringing a "new vaudeville" approach to telling improv-style Shakespeare tales in relation to modern pop culture and politics. The troupe frequents both NPR and the BBC, where they present fragments from their different productions. Past productions with REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY have ranged in theme from comical history, abridgments of musicals, classic novels, sports, religion, and Hollywood.

The troupe last performed at Wharton Center in March 2015 to a sold-out crowd. Now they return with a new show, where the "bad boys of abridgment" go political. From Christopher Columbus to Neil Armstrong and from George Washington to Barack Obama, REDUCEd SheaKESPEARE COMPANY will have audiences in tears laughing along with this outrageous history of politics. This ninety-minute roller coaster takes audiences through a hilarious quagmire of politics. History is normally written by the winners, and now it's our turn.

In the spirit of Shakespeare, the shows contain some occasional bawdy language and mild innuendo.

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