Austin Tichenor Livres

"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 "Gloriously irreverent style...a Christmas pageant gone horribly, hilariously awry." Dallas Morning News "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

Discovered in a treasure-filled parking lot in Leicester, England (next to a pile of bones that didn’t look that important), an ancient manuscript proves to be the long-lost first play written by none other than seventeen-year-old William Shakespeare from Stratford. We are totally not completely making this up. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S LONG LOST FIRST PLAY (abridged) is the literary holy an actual manuscript in Shakespeare’s own hand showing all his most famous characters and familiar speeches in a brand-new story. But because it’s one hundred hours long and contains multiple unwieldy storylines, it was decided, as a public service, to abridge it down to a brief and palatable ninety-minute performance for this lost masterpiece. “Something wickedly funny this way comes!”The New York Times “A breathlessly irreverent, pun-filled romp!”The Washington Post “A top-notch comic deconstruction of Shakespeare!” The Stage—U K

Literature's greatest books condensed into 90 minutes.

"In some ways, it's their funniest presentation yet... With a musical score that gives the script bite and zest, the three performers 'turn history inside out and upside down, cramming 1,000 facts into 90 minutes.' By the end they have given us a nonsensical but hilarious rendition of each major epoch." Andrew Warshaw, The Guardian "Singing that 'history ain't what it used to be' the three-person ensemble put a deranged spin on the events of the past 1,000 years... Mixing broad physical humor with sly satire, the three sang, disco-danced and adopted phony accents and even phonier facial hair to view the highlights (and low points) of history, from Leif Ericsson to the Y2K bug... The show was consistently hilarious." Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News "The show, overall, is a riot... Don't miss it. After all, a comedy this funny only comes along once or twice a millennium." Patrick Meighan, New Hampshire Telegraph ..".combining smarty-pants irreverence with physical buffoonery and street-wise smarts ... it touches greatness." Christopher Rawson, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette