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Every television show or movie you may have loved as a kid or teen has seemingly been rebooted, streamed, and (in many cases) quickly canceled and forgotten in the last five years. Last season Hulu produced a meta-comedy called Reboot <\/em>that asked: What happens if we actually try to write something new with such hackneyed materials? Can we remake a favorite while creating something fresh and new? (This witty show, too, has been canceled after one season, so we may never know.)<\/p>\n

And that brings us to Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] [Again]<\/em>. The two hours traffic of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) <\/em>dares to perform 37 plays with only three actors, and it would be a Shakespearean tragedy to miss this side-splitting reboot of the Bard\u2019s greatest hits (and \u201ccrappy plays,\u201d too). And, because of the pandemic, we almost did. In March 2020, CSC had just opened the production (with a different cast but still directed by CSC Founding Director Ian Gallanar), and it closed due to COVID-19 a week later. Just like one of those unexpected reunions in Shakespeare\u2019s later romances though, where a statue comes back to life or a lost child finds their parents again after 16 years, the play has been revived, breathed into with fresh ideas and new takes. Directed by Gallanar with warmth and wit, it is a dizzyingly fun and irreverent takedown of the Swan of Avon.<\/p>\n

As the title declares, this, too, is a reboot, an updated revision of the 35-year-old frenetic favorite, and the changes work well. This is the first major professional production of the revised script (completed, like Shakespeare\u2019s King Lear, <\/em>during lockdown) by the original members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company: Adam Long, Daniel Singer, and Jess Winfield. (CSC previously produced an older version of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) <\/em>in 2011.)<\/p>\n

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Scott Alan Small, Kathryne Daniels, and Shaquille Stewart in \u2018The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged).\u2019 Photo by Kiirstn Pagan Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gone is the cringey Othello-rap battle scene. Instead, CSC newcomer Shaquille Stewart stops his castmate dressed in pool floaties (she Googled \u201cmoor\u201d and assumed British swampy landscapes) and just cancels any comedic take on Shakespeare\u2019s problematic tragedy about anti-Black racism. It\u2019s a quick scene, but bold and smart. It\u2019s not canceling Othello, <\/em>but rather noting that for tougher topics we need open discourse and thoughtfulness, not belly laughs. Some other updated asides and tossed lines that ring true: Macduff sharing that he was untimely ripped from his mother\u2019s womb becomes a chance to share a pro-choice sentiment, and in Stewart\u2019s opening monologue about his love of Shakespeare, he admits that the plays can be racist, sexist, xenophobic, and otherwise exclusionary and cruel. This doesn\u2019t mean this is a fake \u201cwoke\u201d farce, but one that only becomes even more inclusive, diverse, and hilarious by stating that there are problems with Shakespeare\u2019s works that we must address \u2014 some we can address well through laughter, but others we cannot. Comedy works best when most of the audience can laugh along at most of the jokes, and that means working broadly and not excluding or hurting members of the audience.<\/p>\n

So they don\u2019t quite get through Othello, <\/em>so what? In Act One, they rewrite all of the comedies into one condensed 16-flavors-of-funny sundae. The history plays are reimagined as a football game with the various kings of England trying to get to the endzone with the crown in hand without getting stabbed or poisoned by their rivals. And The<\/em> Two Noble Kinsmen <\/em>brings together the best of both worlds: a dusty soporific scholarly lecture and an extended interpretative dance sequence involving Godzilla. But getting through 36 of the plays before intermission almost breaks one castmate when she learns they haven\u2019t yet tackled Hamlet.<\/em><\/p>\n

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From left: Kathryne Daniels, Shaquille Stewart, and Scott Alan Small in \u2018The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged).\u2019 Photos by Kiirstn Pagan Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s seriously funny business performed by an exceptionally talented triumvirate of fools. Stewart opens the play with usual theater-etiquette business and establishes his easy rapport with the audience right away. He\u2019s affable, game, and charismatic at every turn \u2014 especially his Californian-surfer Romeo \u2014 and is such a natural comedic fit in his CSC debut that I look forward to his next performance on their thrust stage. CSC company member Scott Alan Small plays a bloviating, pre-eminent Shakespearean scholar (emphasis on the \u201cpre,\u201d with an online certificate to prove his falsified creds) given to Freudian readings of everything. The closest we have to a straight man in the cast, he often handles narrator roles but becomes delightfully silly in \u201cKitchen Nightmares\u201d (the cooking show parody starring Titus Andronicus<\/em>) and as a kilt-wearing, golf-club swinging Scottish King with a brogue harder to cut through than week-old haggis. But it is CSC company member Kathryne Daniels who steals almost every scene. An extremely gifted comedic talent, Daniels always knows when to wink to the audience; she speeds along at a galloping pace through her lines (her co-parts keep up, but panting at points) and she knows when to hold still for an extended joke. Whether stumbling through a conflation of Shakespeare and Lincoln\u2019s wiki bios, rasping Juliet\u2019s famous lines in a vocal fry in the balcony scene, or becoming a belligerent redneck King Claudius, she is the kind of inspired actress to know that tragic heroines may vomit profusely as a valid character interpretation.<\/p>\n

Act Two is devoted solely to Hamlet \u2014 <\/em>including an encore 47-second cut of Shakespeare\u2019s wordiest play, a bawdy puppet show, and even a backward run-through. In an extended audience performance aspect, the audience helps get into Ophelia\u2019s psyche after Hamlet\u2019s cruel dismissal: \u201cGet thee to a nunnery.\u201d Together, the audience embodied Ophelia\u2019s id, ego, and superego, until the invited audience member offered an earth-shattering scream. It\u2019s no surprise by the end of the multiple playful reinterpretations of Hamlet <\/em>that Daniels\u2019 character wants to perform it again and again.<\/p>\n

Sure, a few of the pop culture jokes feel outdated or fall flat. (Who has said an exaggerated \u201cwassup\u201d in greeting in the last 15 years? Why is the Prince from Romeo and Juliet <\/em>referred to as the “leader formerly known as Prince” wearing the hieroglyph the famed guitarist used for only five years? The joke works better when we drop that reference and just have Prince Esaclius saunter into and out of the scene to classics such as \u201c1999\u201d and \u201cKiss.\u201d) And all the jokes at George Santos\u2019 expense (he deserves every single one of them) will need to be updated soon, once he\u2019s gone and forgotten. But none of that dulls the fun.<\/p>\n

Shakespeare himself was styled the \u201cUpstart Crow\u201d by rival poet Robert Greene, who accused the relatively obscure young writer of \u201cbeautif[ying] with our feathers\u201d (i.e., plagiarizing others\u2019 works) to become \u201cthe only Shake-scene in the country.\u201d We may not remember much of Greene\u2019s works today, but we do recall this dig at the Bard.<\/p>\n

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Kathryne Daniels, Scott Alan Small, and Shaquille Stewart in \u2018The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged).\u2019 Photo by Kiirstn Pagan Photography.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hamlet, King Lear, <\/em>all the history plays, the Scottish play, and most of the comedies are all reboots. Whether cribbing from English playwrights (King Leir, <\/em>anyone? Ur-Hamlet <\/em>much?), British historian Ralph Holinshed\u2019s Chronicles of England, Ireland, and Scotland, <\/em>or ancient writers such as Plautus, Ovid, and Plutarch, Shakespeare was updating and making a killing at a box office on older works way before Netflix or Hulu commodified your favorite childhood shows.<\/p>\n

Shakespeare truly became \u201cthe only Shake-scene in the country,\u201d that is, the most well-known and frequently produced playwright in the English language for the last 400 years, and his \u201cwords, words, words\u201d (to quote from Hamlet<\/em>) are so deeply embedded into the very fabric of modern culture that the farcical The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) <\/em>has been so greatly enjoyed by audiences for so long. Every dog will have his day and this irreverent reboot is having its day right now.<\/p>\n

Running Time: Two hours plus one 15-minute intermission.<\/p>\n

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] [Again]<\/em><\/strong> <\/a>plays through March 5, 2023, at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, 7 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD. Tickets are $23\u2013$69. Subscriptions and tickets can be purchased by calling 410-244-8570, ordering online<\/a>,<\/strong> or visiting the Box Office in person. For more information or to purchase tickets, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

COVID Safety: <\/strong>Masks are optional. If desired, patrons can also request to be seated in the theater’s social-distance-friendly section, located on the second mezzanine.<\/p>\n

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) [Revised] [Again]<\/em><\/strong>
\nBy Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield<\/p>\n

CAST
\nKathryne Daniels
\nScott Alan Small
\nShaquille Stewart<\/p>\n

Holly Gibbs – Understudy, Scott\/Kathryne
\nTeddy Sherron – Understudy, Shaquille<\/p>\n

CREATIVE TEAM
\nIan Gallanar – Director
\nPaul Wissman – Assistant Director
\nSarah Curnoles – Production Manager
\nAlexis E. Davis – Production Stage Manager
\nDan O\u2019Brien* – Technical Director & Facilities Manager
\nMisha Kachman – Set Designer
\nKristina Lambdin – Costume Designer
\nKatie McCreary – Lighting Designer
\nNikki Lafaye – Props Designer
\nTyrel Brown – Assistant Stage Manager
\nDawn Thomas Reidy – Production Associate
\nBess Kaye – Intimacy and Fight Choreographer
\nAshley Sigmon – Wardrobe Supervisor
\nMandy Benedix – COVID Safety Manager
\nPam Forton – Senior House Manager<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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