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Austin Tichenor

AUSTIN TICHENOR

  
Nationality:    USA
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Austin Tichenor (Writer/Performer/Managing Partner) is a fifth-generation Californian born on the 54th anniversary of the San Francisco Earthquake and the 185th anniversary of Paul Revere's Ride, which makes him older than he looks but short for his weight. Since his debut writing and performing his boldly conceived kindergarten puppet show, Austin's interest in sticking his hands up the backsides of interesting characters continues to this day. An intellectual welterweight, Austin remains disappointingly average despite three very expensive degrees (two from UC Berkeley and one from Boston University). For seven seasons, he served as Associate Producing Director of the American Stage Festival in Milford, NH, writing over 20 plays and musicals for young audiences, as well as directing summer-stocky things like the Foreigner and Jesus Christ Superstar. His productions there of A Christmas Carol and Frankenstein (which he wrote) and Much Ado About Nothing and the Tempest (which he directed) were seen by literally dozens of people. Fortunately, children's Theatre, summer-stock Shakespeare and puppets proved to be the ideal training ground for the RSC, which he joined in 1992.

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         All the Great Books (abridged)         Bible, The: the Complete Word of God (abridged)         Complete History of America, The (abridged)         Complete History of Comedy, The (abridged)         Complete Millennium Musical, The (abridged)         Complete World Of Sports, The (Abridged)         Completely Hollywood (abridged)         Dancing On the Ceiling         Frankenstein         Greatest Story Ever Sold         William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)
All the Great Books (abridged)

Synopsis:
the Literary Canon explodes as the bad boys of abridgement unleash a brand-new comic outrage on an unsuspecting public. America's best loved comedy troupe takes you on a ninety-eight minute roller-coaster ride through its compact compendium of the world's great books in All the Great Books (abridged). Confused by Confucius? Thoroughly thrown by Thoreau? Wish Swift was swifter? Tennyson tinier? then buckle up and hop aboard as the three cultural guerrillas of the Reduced Shakespeare Company zip through everything you didn't get around to reading in school.
- company website

Notes:
(written by Martin And Tichenor, with Additional material by original cast members Croke And Michael Faulkner). the show is developed At bang.studios in Los Angeles, Merrimack Repertory theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, And Alabama Shakespeare Festival

1st Produced:
-     2002

Organisations:
Reduced Shakespeare Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

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Bible, The: the Complete Word of God (abridged)

Synopsis:
It's apocalypse now as the three cultural guerrillas of the Reduced Shakespeare Company set their reductive sites on the good book with the Bible: the Complete Word of God (abridged). Can bolts of lightning be far behind? Yes, it's an affectionate, irreverent roller coaster ride from fig leaves to Final Judgment as the boys tackle the great theological questions: Did Adam and Eve have navels? Did Moses really look like Charlton Heston? And why isn't the word 'phonetic' spelled the way it sounds? Whether you are Catholic or Atheist, Muslim or Jew, Protestant or Purple People Eater, you will be tickled by the RSC's romp through old time religion. Remember. . . Someone is watching.
- company website

Notes:
written by Long, Martin, And Tichenor, with Additional material by Croke

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Organisations:
Reduced Shakespeare Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Complete History of America, The (abridged)

Synopsis:
From Washington to Watergate, yea verily from the Bering Straits to Baghdad, from New World to New World Order - the Complete History of America (abridged) is a ninety minute rollercoaster ride through the glorious quagmire that is American History, reminding us that it's not the length of your history that matters - it's what you've done with it! the three cultural guerillas of the Reduced Shakespeare Company tackle such controversial questions as: Who really discovered America? Why did Abe Lincoln free the slaves? How many Democrats does it take to screw in a lightbulb? History is normally written by the winners. . . now it's the RSC's turn.
- company website

Notes:
1993: the RSC premieres its second stage show - the Complete History of America (abridged) (written by Long, Martin, And Tichenor). they perform America At Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival, the American Repertory theatre, And the Serious Fun Festival At Lincoln Center in New York. Tours of the U.S., Britain, And Israel.

1st Produced:
Just For Laughs Festival, Montreal     1993

Organisations:
Reduced Shakespeare Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Complete History of Comedy, The (abridged)

Synopsis:
The Complete History of Comedy (abridged), dissecting humour from Aristophanes to Zaltzman. The bad boys of abridgment deconstruct the entire history of comedy in 75 minutes.

Notes:
written by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor

1st Produced:
Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     31 Jul 2014

Organisations:
Reduced Shakespeare Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Complete Millennium Musical, The (abridged)

Synopsis:
a thousand years of world history - abridged

Notes:
book And lyrics by Reed Martin And Austin Tichenor, music by Nick Graham, Additional material by Dee Ryan

1st Produced:
-     1998

Organisations:
Reduced Shakespeare Company

1st Published:
-   

Music:
Original cast recording SW (2004)

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Complete World Of Sports, The (Abridged)

Complete World Of Sports, The (Abridged)
From the earliest cavemen playing 'Neanderthal in the Middle' to your own kid's soccer practice, the entire history of athletic competition will be regurgitated in a tour de france of physical theater, at a level of sophistication and pathos that only the RSC can muster. It'll be a marathon of madness and mayhem as the world's great sporting events are shrunk down to theatrical size. Is Bowling really a sport? What about Poker or Competitive eating? Which is more boring - Baseball or Cricket? Who invented Curling and Synchronized Swimming and why in the world are they in the Olympics? Can't Tiger Woods demand that the Master's Green Jacket be slightly less green'?
- company website

Notes:
written by Martin And Tichenor

1st Produced:
-     2010

Organisations:
Reduced Shakespeare Company

1st Published:
Broadway Play Pub; 1st edition (May 13, 2013)   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
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Completely Hollywood (abridged)

Synopsis:
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater . . .the Reduced Shakespeare Company boldly goes where few would dare - Tinseltown! America's 'bad boys of abridgement' take on America's largest cultural and economic export (well, except for weapons) in this seriously silly show biz satire. Get your clapper boards ready! the RSC rummage through the reels and flick through the films in this riotous carnival of the classics. Giving Hollywood more than just a nip and a tuck, they cut through the celluloid to condense the 197 greatest films in Hollywood's over-100 year history into a complete compilation of classic cinematic cliches - plus a few brand new cliches they just made up.
- company website

Notes:
(written by Martin And Tichenor, Additional material by original cast member Dominic Conti)

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Reduced Shakespeare Company

1st Published:
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Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

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Dancing On the Ceiling

Synopsis:
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Notes:
from book by Franz Kafka

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Frankenstein

Synopsis:
Through well-fought debate and action, I wanted to combine the intellectual satisfaction of Shelley's novel with the fun and thrills of a really scary horror story. In other words (to use a little Hollywood pitch-speak), it's George Bernard Shaw meets Stephen King~ Austin Tichenor. Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in 1816 and it caught the public imagination almost immediately. The first stage adaptation was written in 1823, and since then countless film versions, parodies, and modern interpretations have changed the associations we have with the Frankenstein name. This adaptation attempts to be faithful to Shelley's original themes, characters, mood, and literary sensibility while at the same time giving an audience a little bit more of what it expects from something called "Frankenstein". .

Notes:
from novel by Mary Shelley

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  10            Female:  6            Other:  -

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Greatest Story Ever Sold

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Martin And Tichenor

1st Produced:
-     2000

Organisations:
Reduced Shakespeare Company

1st Published:
written by Martin and Tichenor   

Music:
-

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Genre:
Comedy

Parts:
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William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)

William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)
Discovered in a treasure-filled parking lot in Leicester (next to a pile of bones that didnt 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. William Shakespeares Long Lost First Play (abridged) is the literary holy grail: an actual manuscript in Shakespeares own hand showing all his most famous characters and familiar speeches in a brand-new story. An ancient grudge pits Puck (from Midsummer Nights Dream) against Ariel (from The Tempest) and turns Shakespeares canon upside-down, creating such strange bedfellows as Hamlet and that master motivator Lady Macbeth, Viola and Richard III, King Lear and the Weird Sisters, and (of course) Dromio and Juliet.

Notes:
written by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor. Using questionable scholarship and street-performer smarts, playwrights Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor weave together most of the famous speeches and plot devices of Shakespeares thirty-nine plays to create a fast, funny and fictional fortieth, filled with witty wordplay, vaudevillian variety and twins, twins, twins!

1st Produced:
Folger Theatre, Washington DC     21 Apr 2016

Organisations:
Reduced Shakespeare Company

1st Published:

Music:
-

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Genre:
comedy

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  -            Other:  -

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