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REDUCED SHAKESPEARE COMPANY’S THE COMPLETE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABRIDGED)

The "bad boys of abridgement" are back in the UK following a highly successful run in New York and a sell-out US tour of The Complete World of Sports (Abridged). In this exclusive tour ahead of the show’s West End premiere, the entire history of athletic competition is revisited in a marathon of madness and mayhem that sees the world's great sporting events shrunk down to theatrical size.

Among the many questions answered: Is darts really a sport? What does NASCAR stand for? Why do Americans insist on calling a contest in which only they compete the "World Series"? What about wife carrying, extreme ironing and bog snorkelling? Which is more boring – baseball or cricket? Who invented curling and synchronised swimming – and why are they in the Olympics?

Whether it's the ancient cavemen or the Classical Greeks, the Romans, the Elizabethans or the modern sports media, The Complete World of Sports (Abridged) brings you all the emotion, the drama and the scandal of sports…

Every sport ever played on every continent in the entire history of the world in under two hours!

Let the games begin!

 ‘EXTREMELY SMART & FUNNY’ Broadway World                                                                   

‘CRACKERJACK. IT’S HARD NOT TO GRIN ALL NIGHT’ Washington Post
                          
 ‘THEY ARE IRREPRESSIBLE. GENUINELY FUNNY!’ The Times
 

All Live Events

39 Steps | A Walk On Part: The Fall Of New Labour | Abigail's Party | Afternoon Tea Cruise | Akram Khan - Desh | Ballet Revolucion | Billy Elliot | Blood Brothers | Cabaret | Celebrity Night At Cafe Red | Chariots of Fire | Chicago | Chicken | Classic Lunch Cruise | Democracy | Derren Brown: Svengali | Drag Divas | Dreamboats and Petticoats | Evening Dinner Cruise | GATZ | Ghost | Hay Fever | Horrible Histories | Jersey Boys | Julius Caesar | Jumpy | Les Miserables | Let It Be | Lion King | London Dungeon | London Eye | Long Day’s Journey Into Night | Madame Tussauds | Mamma Mia! | Mamma Mia! | Matilda The Musical | Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words | Mercury Fur | Mousetrap | Much Ado About Nothing | Naked Boys Singing | Nickelodeon’s Dora the Explorer LIVE! | Noises Off | One Man, Two Guvnors | Paul Merton Out Of My Head | Phantom of The Opera | Posh | Rambert Dance Company: Mixed Bill | Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Complete World Of Sports(Abridged) | Richard III | Rock Of Ages | Room On The Broom | San Francisco Ballet: Programme A | San Francisco Ballet: Programme B | San Franciso Ballet: Programme C | Shrek The Musical | Singin' In The Rain | Snowman, The | South Downs/The Browning Version | Step 9 (of 12) | Stomp | Sweeney Todd | The Bodyguard | The Duchess of Malfi | The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe | The Mystery Of Edwin Drood | The Sunshine Boys | Thriller Live | Tiger Who Came to Tea | Top Hat | Torch Song Trilogy | Travelling Light | Twelfth Night | Wah! Wah! Girls | Walking With Dinosaurs | War Horse | We Will Rock You | What The Butler Saw | Wicked | Wizard of Oz | Woman In Black | Written On The Heart | Yes, Prime Minister | ZooNation: Some Like It Hip Hop

 

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