Newbury Productions (UK) Limited in association with York Theatre Royal present

The Reduced Shakespeare Company

in

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!

"The pacing and timing are crackerjack. It's hard not to grin all night, give 'em a medal!" - Washington Post

"…this frenetic show leaves you with a new appreciation for just how dull life would be had the idea of athletic competition never been invented." - New York Times

"Owes as much to the insanity of Monty Python as to the inanity of actual sports programs." - Boston Globe

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age recommendation: PG13 – (Pretty good if you're thirteen!)