Written by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor of the hugely successful Reduced Shakespeare Company, this is an irreverent take on some of the famous and lesser known parts of the Bible. With chapters on "The Brighter Side of Job and Lamentations" and "Eat This: the Story of Adam and Eve", this book sets out to provide hours of amusement, showing why the Bible is, and will always be, the greatest story ever sold.

The Greatest Story Ever Sold: A Considered and Whimsical Illumination of the Really Good Parts of Holy Writ

Martin, Reed

Tichenor, Austin

Religion & Spirituality

Westminster John Knox Pr

Learn about all of Shakespeare's plays in one book! Read about William Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems as you never have before in an entertaining pop-up book collaboration between the internationally known comedy troupe the Reduced Shakespeare Company and best-selling illustrator Jennie Maizels. Featuring five interactive spreads filled with dramatic pop-ups, fun foldouts, hilarious summaries, and fascinating commentaries, this is the perfect introduction to one of the world’s greatest playwrights and his enduring works.

Pop-up Shakespeare: Every Play and Poem in Pop-up 3-D

Literature & Fiction

The Reduced Shakespeare Co.

Dramas & Plays

Candlewick

Book by Adam Long, Reed Martin, Austin Tichenor

The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)

Long, Adam

Broadway Play Pub

"English class meets Monty Python." -The Washington Post "Literature's greatest hits condensed into a ninety-minute roller-coaster ride of hilarity." -Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Brilliant, surreal comedy. Street buskers for educated grown-ups. Who knew Homer was so funny? Not Simpson - the other one." -Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Very, very funny." -Arch Campbell, N B C-T V "Verbally dexterous and physically agile. The show darts from satire to silliness to sophisticated irreverence." -Ed Siegel, Boston Globe "Witty and wacky." -Veronica Lee, London Sunday Telegraph

All the Great Books (abridged)

Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated

Kafka for kids? Is that a good idea? Fortunately, with a slight change in tone, it is. The fantastical elements of The Metamorphosis strike a chord with adolescents who are often experiencing their own struggles with changing bodies. DANCING ON THE CEILING is an expressionistic fairy-tale about identity and role expectations. It's scary, funny, and moving. "Austin Tichenor recognizes that children are intelligent discriminating patrons of the arts ... giving them last summer's daring and innovative DANCING ON THE CEILING ..." -Milford Cabinet, Milford, NH "Tichenor's belief in serious play has brought him full circle. Like his plays for tots at American Stage Festival, his work for the Reduced Shakespeare Company is smart, fun, children's theater for grownups." -Bostonia Magazine

Dancing on the Ceiling

KAFKA, FRANZ

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater … 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, except for weapons) in this seriously silly show biz satire. Get your clapper boards ready as we rummage through the reels and flick through the 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’s over 100-year history into a complete compilation of classic cinematic cliches — plus a few brand new cliches they just made up.“A hilarious and speedy take on Hollywood’s highs and lows. I loved it! An instant classic!” —B B C“COMPLETELY HOLLYWOOD (ABRIDGED), is witty and wonderful, wowing audiences with its skillful skewering of American cinema.” —Backstage“The abundant comedy springs as often from the visual as the verbal, spewing forth in a fusillade of playfully irreverent images and inventively juxtaposed ideas.” —Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewCritic’s Choice! “A standing ovation … Genuinely funny.” —Benedict Nightingale, London Times“COMPLETELY HOLLYWOOD (ABRIDGED) has the kind of hallucinatory sideways comic logic that you find in, say, the films of the Marx Brothers or the early albums of the Firesign Theater.” —KDHX Radio (St. Louis)“You’ll nearly fall out of your theater seat laughing. Spectacularly high energy … an absolute scream!” —The Arizona Republic

Completely Hollywood (abridged)

In this merciless but affectionate satire, The Reduced Shakespeare company sets its comic sights on the lunacy of sports. The result is a tour-de-farce of vaudevillian physical comedy that will delight every non-sports fan in the family. "It's a deceptively exhaustive tour, its intellectual rigor leavened by silliness of the first degree." -Variety "A comical analysis of sports' childish side. [This] parody of E S P N's 'SportsCenter' ... is pitched directly and proudly at the juvenile in sports fans of all ages." -New York Times "A fast-moving and deeply funny farrago, a neo-vaudevillian sendup that manages to be both merciless and affectionate." -Boston Globe "Hysterical! [These] world champs of lampooning reduce sports to its hilarious basics." -San Jose Mercury News

The Complete World Of Sports (abridged)

An affectionate, irreverent roller-coaster ride from fig leaves to Final Judgment, tackling the great theological questions: Did Adam and Eve have navels? Did Moses really look like Charlton Heston? And why isn't the word "phonetic" spelled the way it sounds? Whether you're Catholic or Atheist, Muslim or Jew, Protestant or Purple People Eater, you will be tickled by this romp through old-time religion. "... There is no doubt about it, these three lads are in a league of their own when it comes to vivid originality in the show ... They have sublime moments of surreal theatricality ... Sly minds are at work throughout. Posing the theological question: Does God have a sense of humor? They prove that undoubtedly he has. Why else would he have left the Children of Israel to wander the Middle East for forty years and then give them the only bit of land with no oil on it?" -Jack Tinker, Daily Mail (London) "... That apocalyptic roller-coaster of sex, violence, murder and miracles - the Bible - has been abridged by three American sinners. And verily this blasphemous, hilarious zip through the Old and New Testaments will henceforth be proclaimed as THE BIBLE: THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD (ABRIDGED) ... Not even the most somber, uptight Scientologist could take offense at this snappy, slick and utterly entertaining show ..." -Sunday Express (London) "'In the beginning,' a godlike voice informs us, 'there was chaos.' But why stop there? The disorder continues throughout the middle and end of THE BIBLE: THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD (ABRIDGED) until the neat rows of audience have dissolved hysterically into the aisles. In spoofing the book they call 'the greatest story ever accepted as fact,' The Reduced Shakespeare Company combines shtick, wordplay, physical humor, sight gags, audience participation and jokes so old ... gleefully give in to the giggles and the guffaws and, indeed, the buffoonery is hard to resist ..." -Ron Weiskind, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "In the beginning there was THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED). And it was good. And SHAKESPEARE begat THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED). And that was good, too. And now AMERICA has begat (begotten?, begetted? ... whatever) THE BIBLE: THE COMPLETE WORD OF GOD (ABRIDGED), and damned if it isn't the funniest of the lot ..." -Bob Mondello, City Paper (Washington)

The Complete Word Of God (abridged)

Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816 and it caught the public imagination almost immediately. The first stage adaptation was written in 1823, and since then countless film versions, parodies, and modern interpretations have changed the associations we have with the Frankenstein name. Shelley's novel offers many pleasures, but fulfilling the horror-movie expectations of the modern reader isn't one of them. This adaptation attempts to be faithful to Shelley's original themes, characters, mood, and literary sensibility while at the same time giving an audience a little bit more of what it expects from something called 'Frankenstein'. Through well-fought debate and action, I wanted to combine the intellectual satisfaction of Shelley's novel with the fun and thrills of a really scary horror story. In other words (to use a little Hollywood pitch-speak), it's George Bernard Shaw meets Stephen King.

Frankenstein

SHELLEY,MARY

Welcome to the Annual Holiday Variety Show and Christmas Pageant at St. Everybody's Non-Denominational Universalist Church, where all faiths are welcome because we'll believe anything. But there's a problem: none of the acts scheduled to perform have arrived, so three members are pressed into service to perform the entire Variety Show and Christmas Pageant by themselves. An irreverent yet heartwarming trip through the holidays, THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (ABRIDGED) is festive, funny, physical, family fun as these Three Wise Guys send up and celebrate our favorite holiday traditions.“Critic’s Choice! They tell me vaudeville died some time ago, but … the knockabout, anything-for-a-laugh spirit of the ancient genre is alive and well. Agile and quick witted … there’s no denying their ingenuity when it comes to grabbing comedy out of thin air.” —Boston Globe“Brought down the house with gales of laughter.” —Theatre Mirror“A pure delight from start to finish … Inspired madness!” —Broadway World“Delightfully twisted holiday cheer. Christmas will never be the same once you share the holiday with the inspired lunacy of the masters of condensing the classics.” —San Diego Theatre World“Side-splitting!” —Nashua Telegraph“THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (ABRIDGED) will make your spirits bright, whether you joyfully embrace the upcoming season or get dragged into it kicking and screaming.” —Broadway World“Nothing less than hysterical!” —Zingology“Side-splitting fun … A night of belly-aching laughter!” —New England Theatre Geek“Gloriously irreverent style … a Christmas pageant gone horribly, hilariously awry.” —Dallas Morning News“THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (ABRIDGED) [is a] zany, irreverent, side-sticker-inducing amalgam of vaudeville, improv and song. Thunderous, standing applause.” —Arts à la Mode, Charlotte, NC“The bad boys of abridgment are in fine comedic form … This rollicking romp lovingly skewers every holiday tradition you can imagine.” —The Accidental Thespian, Washington, DC“These brilliant clowns take us on an irreverent, but heartwarming trip through the holidays guaranteed to step on more than a few sacred cows and ‘mistel-toes.'” —San Diego Magazine“Like no holiday show I have seen before … this trio of actors delivers a tour de force performance that left the room in stitches and exiting the theater still buzzing … an absolute delight!” —Edge San Diego“Stunningly hilarious … a must see for your entire family!” —KDHX Radio, St. Louis“Triumphant!” —Creative Loafing, Charlotte, NC“A complete delight!” —Two On The Aisle, HEC TV, St. Louis“It is a long time since I have seen an audience laugh as loud and as long as this. THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS SHOW (ABRIDGED) is a delight that will keep you smiling for days and a great way to get you in the true holiday spirit.” —LGBT Weekly, San Diego

The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged)

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