The Society of the Arts in conjunction with The Department of Theatre Arts present

The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)

by

The Reduced Shakespeare Company

November 6-9, 1996 at 8:00 PM in the PSU Hazleton Commons

Produced through special arrangement with Broadway Play Publishing Inc., 56 E. 81, NY NY 10028.
The script of this play maybe purchased through BPPI.

The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)

Directed by Steve Schrum

Costumes Designed and Constructed by Dianna L. Bourke

The Company

(in alphabetical order)

Reli Cavaliere
Matthew "Cliff" Clifford
Samantha "Squeen" Denke
Christopher M. Fordice
Thomas William Harrison
Audra Hope Hearity
Kelly Herbert
Kelli Weber

Original Music by Jeremy dePrisco.

Performance Art Music created by Jeremy with Aleatoric Composer v1.0 by Carl M. Christensen of Temple University.

There will be one 15 minute intermission.

Acknowledgments: The Director, Cast and Crew would like to thank:

Actor Bios

Reli Cavaliere, from Nananuet, NY, is a freshman Communication major. Previous roles for Reli include The Pajama Game, The Vampyre, and You The Jury. She is making her Hazleton Campus stage debut with this show, although she claims that she is performing most of the time in real life.

Matthew (Cliff) Clifford is a sophomore Physics major from Allentown, PA, who was last seen as the Tramp in last spring's campus production of The Cherry Orchard. In high school, Cliff played Charles in Pippin and also appeared in the one acts, The Slave with Two Faces and The Red Peppers. He does not usually dress in women's clothes.

Samantha "Squeen" Denke has played Pepper in Annie, Sister Hubert in Nunsense, the Queen in Once Upon a Mattress, and Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes. She also played the director in The Worst High School Play in the World, which she assures us is the title of the play. Samantha is a freshman psychology major from Valley of the Lakes.

Christopher M. Fordice, from Randolph NJ, is a sophomore Biology major. Last year on our campus he played the agÈd butler Firs in The Cherry Orchard, and the Detective in Abducted! in the Fall '95 Evening of One Acts. Previous stage credits include Reuben and the Butler in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Malcolm in Macbeth, Stanley in Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Oliver in Oliver. Incidentally, this is almost the same bio Chris had last year.

Thomas William Harrison, from Nesquehoning, PA, is, according to his reckoning, a "super-senior," pursuing an accounting degree after completing his B.A. in Communications (as a University Scholar, no less). Tom was last seen on stage as Jud Fry in the Marian Catholic High School production of some play he wouldn't tell us the name of...

Audra Hope Hearity began the semester as the Assistant Director of Compleat Wrks but was promoted to actor when someone dropped out. On our campus, Audra played Madame Ranevsky in last spring's production of The Cherry Orchard. She also wrote Opportunity for Comfort, one of the one acts presented last fall. Other theatre experience for Audra includes the role of the Mother in Blood Wedding, and she directed two one-acts at Bloomsburg U., her alma mater.

Kelly Herbert is a freshman Comparative Literature major from Blakeslee, PA. Previously, Kelly has played roles in The Lottery, Dracula, and The Phantom Tollbooth. (Why always such scary plays?) Last May, Kelly finished thirteenth in the nation for dramatics at the National Speech and Debate Tournament in Topeka, Kansas. Thirteenth? Fate or coincidence?

Kelli Weber lists "lots of high school stuff" as her previous experience, but doesn't go into details, though we don't know whether that is from modesty or embarrassment. A freshman Film and Video major, Kelli is from Lisle, Illinois, making her Hazleton campus stage debut.

Crew Bios

Christopher Carithers (Crew/Godzilla Artist) is working backstage this semester after appearing onstage as the radical pool-playing and proselytizing Station Master in last Spring's production of The Cherry Orchard. Chris is a sophomore English major Ringtown, PA.

Scott Carroll (Crew) has no previous theatre experience, but he has done recording and sound mixing. A freshman Communications major, Scott is from Kunkletown, PA.

Chris Cutitta (Crew) is a freshman Biology major. In the past, Chris has worked on set construction and prop-building. He is from Kunkletown, PA.

Melissa Grainger (Scenic Artist) is a sophomore Advertising major from Cresco, PA. Although this is the first time Melissa has worked in theatre, she has done painting and drawing in the past.

Douglas Hahner (Crew) is a freshman deciding between Film & Video and Education as his major. From Scotch Plains, NJ, Doug worked in his high school television station as the weekly news anchor, and also worked behind the camera. He also worked on stage crew, and played Jesus in the female version of The Odd Couple.

Kevin Kashi (Crew)

Angela M. Minton (Crew) is a freshman Communication major from Perkasie, PA. Angela's previous performing experiences includes acting and singing.

Kelly Piccione (Crew)

Rusty Snyder (Crew) is a first-year Film and Video major from Danville, PA. In high school she did a variety of technical jobs (house manager, painter, tech crew, and lighting crew) for numerous shows. She has also worked on the tech crew for the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble. Rusty also has a role in the soon-to-be-released film, Drawing Down the Moon.

Production Staff


Assistant Director...............................Audra Hope Hearity

Set Construction.......................Scott Carroll, Chris Cutitta,

                                 Matthew Clifford, Melissa Grainger,

                                        Douglas Hahner, Kevin Kashi,

                      Angela M. Minton, Kelly Piccione, Rusty Snyder

Scenic Artist ......................................Melissa Grainger

Godzilla Created by............................Christopher Carithers

Running Crew................Christopher Carithers,  Melissa Grainger

Light Board Operator................................Angela M. Minton

Sound Operator....................................... Douglas Hahner

Most of the students involved in this production receive credit for Theatre 298, Theatre in Production.

Director's Notes

In the Fall semesters of 1994 and 1995, we presented An Evening of One Acts, and I thought that such a presentation might become an annual event. But the combined difficulties of not being able to find good one acts that I haven't already directed or that everyone else has done, and the perennial problem of not knowing who will be swimming in the acting pool, made me decide to try something else.

Years ago I had an idea to do a two-hour compressed version of Wagner's twelve-hour Ring of The Nibelungen opera cycle. Well, I still haven't done it, but along the way I have done some drastic cuttings, including a fifty-minute version of Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost for a lunchtime theatre presentation. So, when the rights for The Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) became available, it seemed right up my alley (as they say), and I decided that this would work for the campus fall production.

For research, I saw the original Reduced Shakespeare Company perform another of their abbreviated productions, The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged) on tour last December. With that background, and a lifetime of studying Warner Brothers cartoons, I looked forward, to paraphrase Bill Clinton, to building abridge to the future.

N-joy the sho.

--Steve Schrum

Audience members are requested to refrain from taking flash photographs during the performance.

A Listing of The Compleat Works of William Shakespeare

Plays: (in alphabetical order)


All's Well That Ends Well           Macbeth

Antony an Cleopatra                 Measure for Measure

As You Like It                      Merry Wives of Windsor

Coriolanus                          Midsummer Night's Dream, A

Cymbeline                           Much Ado About Nothing

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark           Othello, the Moor of Venice

Julius Caesar                       Pericles, Prince of Tyre

King Henry IV, Part One             Romeo and Juliet

King Henry IV, Part Two             Taming of the Shrew, The

King Henry V                        Tempest, The

King Henry VI, Part One             The Comedy of Errors

King Henry VI, Part Three           The Merchant of Venice

King Henry VI, Part Two             Timon of Athens

King Henry VIII                     Titus Andronicus

King John                           Troilus and Cressida

King Lear                           Twelfth Night, or What You Will

Life and Death of King Richard II   Two Gentlemen of Verona

Life and Death of King Richard III  Winter's Tale, The 

Love's Labour's Lost
		Poems:

"A Lover's Complaint"
"The Rape of Lucrece"
Sonnets (154)
"The Passionate Pilgrim"
"The Phoenix and the Turtle"
"Venus and Adonis"