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The Cast DAN SASKI has been helping the RSC reduce expectations for years. He’s performed internationally in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) and regionally in The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged) and The Complete History of Comedy (abridged). Dan also workshopped the premier of William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) and was introduced to the RSC when he was seen in The Complete History of America (abridged). He’s been an actor in and around the SF Bay Area for the past 15 years; and also teaches theater, so he can pay rent. Dan is a proud alumni of The Meisner Technique Studio. REED MARTIN has performed in forty-six states and eleven foreign countries, including New Jersey. Prior to joining the RSC in 1989, he was a clown with Ringling Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus where he spent two years frightening children and smelling of elephants. He lives in Northern California with his wife and two sons, all three of whom are much funnier than he is. Reed feels strongly that toilet paper should be fed over the top of the roll. AUSTIN TICHENOR wrote nine of the RSC’s ten Complete (abridged) shows, plus the irreverent reference book Reduced Shakespeare: The Complete Guide for the Attention-Impaired (abridged), with Reed Martin. He’s played recurring roles on Felicity, 24 and Alias, and guest starred as Guys In Ties on Gilmore Girls, The West Wing, and many shows like them. He and his wife Dee Ryan live in Chicago with two kids and too many cats. Twitter: @austintichenor

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Production Staff ALLI BOSTEDT (Wardrobe Supervisor) took her first foray into theatre at age 4. She soon discovered that every stage has a backstage and has attempted to remain there ever since. A native of Las Vegas, Alli lives in California with a talking shower curtain and an extensive rubber ducky collection. ADAM LONG (Co-Author), although born in Manhattan and raised in California with Texans, now resides in London with his lovely wife Alex, his son Joe, daughter Tilly, 6 guinea pigs, two hens, a cat, two tortoises, a very old fish, and a gnat named Charlie. He cites his influences as Harpo Marx, Dogen Zenji and The Grateful Dead. ELAINE M. RANDOLPH (Stage Manager) Credits include stage management (compulsive) and lighting design (creative) in theater, music, and dance, for the Kennedy Center, Walnut Street Theater, Actors’ Theater of Louisville, among many others. Recent projects include Barbara Cook in Concert, The International Ballet Festival, and The Sondheim Celebration. Favorite projects include: Quilters, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Noises Off, Pump Boys & Dinettes, Radio Gals, A Tuna Christmas, Forever Plaid, and A Christmas Carol. DANIEL SINGER (RSC Founder) co-created The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), spent twelve years designing theme park attractions for Walt Disney Imagineering (particularly Disneyland’s Toontown) and is currently a CPL (Creative Person at Large). Visit stargodsmusical.net for information about his latest play.

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Bibliography Bibliography for The Complete History of America (abridged): Special Election Edition Any scholarly work is dependent on the research of underpaid graduate students, and The Complete History of America (abridged) Special Election Edition is no exception. The list below, though well-typed, is by no means complete: in our attempt to grasp some ephemeral notion of truth, we scoured more texts and rare primary sources than we had the energy or attention span to count. The books below are a mere sampling of the wealth of knowledge available to the casual historian, and from which we gleaned1 many valuable insights. The Complete History of America (abridged) Special Election Edition is the result of years of scholarship, innuendo, and over-the-counter narcotics. Any resemblance to historical fact is strictly coincidental. SELECTED READINGS Barry, Dave: Dave Barry Slept Here - A Sort Of History of the United States. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1989. This thin book speaks volumes about the current state of the American educational system. Brogan, Hugh: The Penguin History of the United States. London, 1976. An informative look at America from the unusual perspective of the penguin. Chomsky, Noam: Year 501 - The Conquest Continues. Boston: South End Press, 1993. (Pop-Up Picture Series) This powerful revisionist work would have you believe, among other things, that genocide is a bad thing. Dahmer, Jeffrey: Serial Killer Color & Story - An Activity Book for Children. Milwaukee: Son of Sam Imprint, 1991. A bright and cheerful introduction to some colorful American misﬁts. Ages 2-7. Davis, Kenneth C.: Don’t Know Much About History. New York: Crown, Inc., 1990. A compulsively readable overview of American history from soup (the ﬁrst Thanksgiving) to nuts (the current administration). Diamond, Neil: The Jazz Singer. VHS/DVD. A biting and incisive look at the American immigrant experience. (See also Spielberg, Steven: An American Tail.) 1 stole

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Bibliography Disney, Walt: Song of the South. VHS/DVD. A biting and incisive look at American slavery. Gaines, William C., ed.: MAD Magazine. The “Star Blecch!” issue. An important cultural reference. (See also “The Poop-Side-Down Adventure” issue.) Hamlin, Harry: LA Law - My Favorite Episodes (The Complete Scripts). Los Angeles: Full Court Press, 1990. A biting and incisive look at American jurisprudence. Hoff, Benjamin: The Tao of Pooh. New York: Dutton, 1982. Zen for morons. Kerouac, Jack: On The Road. The classic chronicle of soul-searching and experimentation that deﬁned a generation. (See also Cassidy, David: On The Road, Too: My Years on The Magic Bus with the Partridge Family.) Loder, Kurt: Lewis & Clark Unplugged. New York: MTV Publishing, Inc., 1991. Manifest Destiny goes acoustic. Murray, Anne, as told to Loder, Kurt: Snowbird - The Anne Murray Story. Toronto: Bantam Paperbacks, 1984. The uplifting story of Canada’s favorite songbird. Seuss, Dr.: The Cat in The Hat. New York: Beginner Books, 1958. The searing and explosive book that ﬁrst dared to expose the horrors of Vietnam. Ages 2-7. Shenkman, Richard: Legends, Lies, & Cherished Myths of American History. New York: Harper & Row, 1988. Yoko brought a walrus, there was magic in the air. Shenkman, Richard: I Love Paul Revere, Whether He Rode Or Not. New York: Harper & Row, 1990. He more or less didn’t. Spelling, Aaron: Buying Your Daughter A Career. Beverly Hills, 90210: Vanity Press, 1991. The struggle for acceptance and respect in a place they call...Hollywood. Tocqueville, Alexis de: Democracy in America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1945. Did you know this book was originally written in the nineteenth century? We didn’t either. Tucker, Robert C., ed.: The Marx-Engels Reader. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1972. (Large-Print Edition) Recently discovered radio scripts featuring Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Friedrich. Zinn, Howard: A People’s History of the United States. New York: Harper Perennial, 1980. This subtle understated work makes a pretty convincing case that there’s corruption in government. Who knew?

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Getting it all? Don’t despair! Ask the Reduced Shakespeare Company any serious question about American History! Below are questions we’ve answered in the past. We hope they inspire reflection and self-examination (doctors recommend at least one a month). Ask away!

SAMPLE HISTORY QUESTIONS 1. What was the Society of Cincinnati? An 18th-century group which endorsed an hereditary presidency. 2. What did the Know-Nothing Party stand for? They opposed immigration and Catholics in office; unwilling to divulge this, their response to questions was “I don’t know.” 3. Was Lincoln a Democrat or a Republican? Republican. 4. What’s the difference between the Federalist Papers and the Articles of Confederation? The Papers explained the Constitution and urged its ratification; the Articles predated it, serving as the nation’s first binding constitution. 5. Which two Presidents died on the same day? Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on July 4, 1826. 6. What was Seward’s Ice Box? Alaska. 7. In whose administration was Elvis Presley an agent for the Drug Enforcement Agency? Richard Nixon’s. 8. When was the Era of Good Feelings? From 1817 to 1825. James Monroe was president and there was only one political party: the Democratic-Republican Party. 9. What does E Pluribus Unum mean? “Out of many, one.” 10. What did the Nineteenth Amendment do? Not adopted until 1920, it gave women the right to vote. 11. Who was Harriet Tubman? Abolitionist, spy, and escaped slave who made 19 trips back to the South to lead over 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.

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Since its pass-the-hat origins in 1981, For years the RSC had more shows the Reduced Shakespeare Company running in the West End than Andrew has created ten world-renowned Lloyd Webber. They were also funnier. stage shows, two television specials, several failed TV pilots, and In 2016, in honor of its 35th numerous radio pieces, all of which anniversary and the 400th have been seen, performed, and anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, heard the world over. The company’s the RSC premiered its 10th stage stops have included the White House, show William Shakespeare’s Long off-Broadway, the Kennedy Center, Lost First Play (abridged) at the Lincoln Center, London’s Folger Shakespeare Theatre in West End, Seattle Washington DC. And in 2013, Repertory Theatre, the RSC premiered American Repertory the subject Theatre and it was born to Montreal’s famed reduce - The Just For Laughs Complete History Festival, as well as of Comedy performances in (abridged) - to Israel, Australia, critical and New Zealand, commercial Hong Kong, acclaim at Japan, Malta, Cincinnati Singapore and Playhouse in the Bermuda, plus Park. countless civic and university The “Bad Boys of It’s Fre venues Abridgment” have also Reduce e! Every wee throughout the applied their fast, funny dShake k! USA, the UK, and physical approach s p e ar iTunes and Europe. & Stitc e.com, to World History in her Western Civilization: The RSC’s ﬁrst three The Complete Musical shows - The Complete Works (abridged) [original title: The Complete Millennium of William Shakespeare (abridged), Musical (abridged)], which toured The Complete History of America simultaneously in the US, UK and (abridged), and The Bible: The Australia); Athletics in The Complete Complete Word of God (abridged) World of Sports (abridged), which - ran for nine years at the Criterion played in London during the 2012 Theatre in Piccadilly Circus as Olympics; Literature in All the Great London’s longest-running comedies.

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Books (abridged); and the Movies in Completely Hollywood (abridged), which skewers the 197 greatest films of all time. All these shows have received critical acclaim across the US, UK, Belgium, Holland, Hong Kong, and Barbados, and played to packed houses at the Kennedy Center, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Seattle’s ACT Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and Sweden (in Swedish!). And in 2011, the world premiere of The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged) became Merrimack Repertory Theatre’s best-selling holiday show ever, and the third-best-selling show in MRT’s history. For TV, the RSC compressed the first five seasons of Lost into a ten-minute film called Lost Reduced, and was a Jeopardy! category in the 2005 and 2006 Tournaments of Champions. They wrote and starred in The Ring Reduced, a half-hour version of Wagner’s Ring Cycle for Channel 4 (UK), and reduced the Edinburgh Festival for BBC and the soap opera Glenroe for RTE Ireland. Shakespeare (abridged) aired on PBS and is available on DVD, as is America (abridged). For National Public Radio, the RSC has been heard on All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Talk of the Nation, Day to Day, West Coast Live, and To The

Best of Our Knowledge. The BBC World Service commissioned the six-part Reduced Shakespeare Radio Show. The Reduced Shakespeare Company Christmas was heard on Public Radio International. The RSC won the prestigious Shorty Award in New York City and the Delft Audience Award in Holland. They’ve also been nominated for an Olivier Award in London, two Helen Hayes Awards in Washington, DC, the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. RSC scripts are published in the US and UK, and translated into over a dozen languages. The RSC also creates unique entertainments for corporate events, working with Sky-TV, Time Magazine, Motorola, Rotary International, and others. Hyperion published their irreverent reference book Reduced Shakespeare: The Complete Guide for the AttentionImpaired (abridged). The company established its own imprint Reduced Books to publish the comic memoir How The Bible Changed Our Lives (Mostly For The Better) in all e-book formats. And the RSC Podcast, a free 20-minute audio glimpse of life backstage and on the road, is available every week at iTunes and www. reducedshakespeare.com.

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Additional Credits Company Manager.......................................................................................................... Alli Bostedt Stage Manager.................................................................................................. Elaine M. Randolph Wardrobe Supervisor..................................................................................................... Alli Bostedt Additional Voice............................................................................................................... Jane Martin Set Design................................................................................................................... Phil Englehardt Props & Costumes...........................Rose Blackshaw, Vernon Marshall, Sally Thomas U.S. Tour Direction.....................................................................................................Opus 3 Artists Creative Cash Control................................................................................................Joanne Nagel Legal Counsel......................................................................................... Sharon Colchamiro, Esq. Company Founder........................................................................................................Daniel Singer

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