Sponsor highlight: Reduced Shakespeare Company rings in vacation season with festive, humorous, bodily enjoyable

The madcap merrymakers of the Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) are able to carry pleasure to Edmonds with The Ultimate Christmas Show (Abridged) on Dec. 3 at Edmonds Center for the Arts. This humorous, festive, and side-splitting send-up of all issues vacation consists of traditional carols to tacky TV specials—no tinsel is left untangled on this comedian celebration of the season.

The scene is about on the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody’s Non-Denominational Universalist Church, the place all faiths are welcome. But there’s an issue: None of the acts scheduled to carry out have arrived, so the three members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company are pressed into service to carry out all the Variety Show and Christmas Pageant by themselves! And after all, hilarity ensues.

Called a “trio of Modern Marx Brothers” by the Boston Herald and “intellectual vaudeville” by the New York Times, the Reduced Shakespeare Company is a touring American comedy troupe that performs fast-paced, seemingly improvisational condensations of huge subjects.

The firm holds the document for the longest working comedies within the historical past of London’s West End as three of its exhibits ran in repertory on the Criterion Theatre in Piccadilly Circus for nearly ten years. Known because the “Bad Boys of Abridgment,” the RSC has carried out on the White House, Lincoln Center, Off-Broadway, the Kennedy Center, and Montreal’s famed Just For Laughs Festival, in addition to touring the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, Singapore, Barbados, Bermuda, Israel, Qatar and Ireland. The Reduced Shakespeare Company is heard often on each NPR and the BBC.

Since its pass-the-hat origins in 1981, the RSC has created 10 world-renowned stage exhibits, two tv specials, a number of failed TV pilots, and quite a few radio items, all of which have been carried out, seen, and heard the world over.

San Diego Theatre World known as the present “delightfully twisted holiday cheer,” including, “Christmas will never be the same once you share the holiday with the inspired lunacy of the masters of condensing the classics — the Reduced Shakespeare Company.”

Join us on Dec. 3 for a night of festive, humorous, bodily enjoyable as these Three Wise Guys ship up and have a good time your favourite winter vacation traditions. You may even carry a wrapped Christmas reward valued at $5 or much less to take part within the viewers reward change.

Let the RSC rekindle the enjoyment, internal youngster and familial dysfunction inside us all!

CONTENT ADVISORY: In the spirit of Shakespeare’s comedies, RSC exhibits comprise comedian depictions of violence, delicate innuendo, bawdy language, and the occasional impolite phrase. All kids (and fogeys) are completely different, in order that they’ve chosen to charge their exhibits PG-13: Pretty Good If You’re Thirteen.

Looking for extra vacation magic?

Visit ec4arts.org to seek out extra performances and group occasions celebrating the season, equivalent to A Celtic Christmas with The Gothard Sisters, Cascade Symphony Orchestra’s Holiday Pops, Grand Kyiv Ballet’s Snow White, and extra!

Explore ECA’s full lineup of leisure on our website, or join with us by visiting, calling, or emailing the ECA Box Office. Located at 410 4th Ave. N., the field workplace is open noon-5 p.m. on weekdays, with prolonged hours on efficiency nights. Reach us at [email protected] or 425-275-9595. Discounts can be found in any respect ECA-presented exhibits for seniors, college students, and army members.

Funded partly by the City of Edmonds Tourism Promotional Fund