Shakespeare's Complete Works (slightly abridged)
Since all of Shakespeare's works - 37 pieces - need a total of 120 hours for a performance, the Americans Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield came up with the idea of composing all of Shakespeare's works (slightly shortened) . Together they form the RSC, the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and perform all of Shakespeare's plays in a threesome - in one evening . The piece premiered in 1987 at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe .
Methods to “save time” are to condense similar topics into one piece or to give an actor several roles to play at the same time. All comedies that are known to be “less funny” than the tragedies have also been combined into one piece. The histories are ultimately played as football games , during which King Lear is disqualified as a "fictional character ". All of Shakespeare's works (slightly abbreviated) has become a very successful stage play all over the world - but especially in London .
Among German theater people, the play was initially considered to be untranslatable because of the many puns and allusions from English culture, until Dorothea Renckhoff translated it into German for the theater publisher Felix Bloch Erben on behalf of Christoph Köhler . In its version, the German-language premiere took place in 1997 at the Essen Theater and the production by Daniel Karasek at the Residenztheater in Munich , which made the play cult in Germany . Since then, the Shakespeare medley in Renckhoff's transmission has been staged in well over 50 German-speaking theaters, is constantly experiencing new productions and has been on the agenda at many theaters for years (e.g. at the Berlin Vaganten stage since 1997).