Completely Hollywood (Abridged)
by Bastrop Opera House

Dec. 13 - Dec. 16 (2017)

Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night as the Reduced Shakespeare Company boldly goes where few would dare –Tinseltown!  America’s “bad boys of abridgement” take on America’s largest cultural and economic export (well, after democracy and obesity) in this seriously silly show biz satire. Get your clapper boards ready!

The RSC rummage through reels and flick through films in this riotous carnival of the classics. Giving Hollywood more than just a nip and a tuck, they cut through the celluloid to condense the 186 greatest films in Hollywood history into a complete compilation of classic cinematic cliches — plus a few brand new cliches they just made up.

They’ve gone Biblical, they’ve gone historical, now the RSC has gone Completely Hollywood… abridged, of course! Lights! Camera! REDUCTION!

        “(This) smart, timely satire sent a Kennedy Center audience into regular peals of near-hysterical laughter.” The Washington Post

“One of the greatest, sustained pieces of physical comedy I have ever seen. There are brilliant pieces of comic invention. Go see. Buy tickets now.” BBC

“You’ll nearly fall out of your theater seat laughing. Spectacularly high energy… an absolute scream!” The Arizona Republic

“One of the funniest troupes in American theater today!”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“Break-neck, ingenious compendium of filmmaking’s 100-plus-year history!”
Howard Sherman, Executive Director of the American Theatre Wing

“Hilarious!” London Sunday Mail

“A hilarious and speedy take on Hollywood’s highs and lows. I loved it! An instant classic! Hurray for Hollywood, and hurray for the Reduced Shakespeare Company!” BBC

 

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Audition Notice:
"Completely Hollywood (abridged)
By Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor & Dominic Conti

Open call for male and female actors with comic abilities to skewer American cinema in this satiric, fast-paced, witty slapstick send-up of 186 of Tinseltown's famous movies!