TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS

REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY
PERFORMING THEIR HILARIOUS NEW COMEDY
THE COMPLETE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABRIDGED)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 2011, 8:00 P.M. & SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 2011, 2:00 P.M.

IN B. IDEN PAYNE THEATRE

PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH L STYLE G STYLE &
THE UT DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE

“…Intellectual vaudeville…they are smart, cheeky clowns who present themselves as a collective repository for most of American mass culture.” – New York Times

“Slick, intelligent, altogether hilarious!” —Irish Times, Dublin

Texas Performing Arts presents an evening of laugh-out-loud, original theatre as the Reduced Shakespeare Company perform their hilarious piece, The Complete World of Sports (Abridged), January 29 & 30 in B. Iden Payne Theatre on the University of Texas campus. The Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) is renowned for taking long, serious subjects and reducing them to short, sharp comedies.

This hysterical evening sprints through the world of sports at record-breaking speed. From the earliest cavemen playing “Neanderthal in the Middle” to your own kid’s soccer practice, the history of athletic competition is recapped in a Tour de France of physical theater, at a level of sophistication and pathos that only the RSC can muster. It’s a marathon of madness and mayhem as the world’s great sporting events are shrunk down to theatrical size.

Since its 1981 origins as a pass-the-hat act in California, Reduced Shakespeare Company has created six stage shows, several TV programs and numerous radio pieces—all of which have been performed, seen, and heard the world over. They were London’s longest running comedy routine and they have made numerous television and radio appearances including NBC’s Today Show, Entertainment Tonight and NPR’s All Things Considered.

CALENDAR LISTING
Saturday, January 29, 8:00 pm & Sunday, January 30, 2011 at 2:00 pm –Texas Performing Arts presents the Reduced Shakespeare Company: The Complete World of Sports (abridged) in B. Iden Payne Theatre (E. 23rd St. and San Jacinto). A map of campus: TexasPerformingArts.org/visit/maps_directions. Tickets ($28 / Limited $10 student tickets / discounted tickets available for UT faculty & staff, seniors and Military) are on sale now at authorized ticket outlets, which include the Bass Concert Hall Box Office, most H-E-B stores and all Texas Box Office outlets, online at TexasPerformingArts.org, or by calling (512) 477-6060 or (800) 982-BEVO (2386).

PRESS CONTACT:
Gene Bartholomew
512.471.0632
gbartholomew@TexasPerformingArts.org

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