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AUSTIN TICHENOR |
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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.
Plays by Austin Tichenor
All The Great Books (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2002 | ||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115976 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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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 | |||||
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. | |||||
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Bible, The: The Complete Word of God (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Jul 1995 | |||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115977 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Long, Martin, and Tichenor, with additional material by Croke | |||||
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. | |||||
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Complete History of America, The (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Just For Laughs Festival, Montreal | 1993 | ||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115978 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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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. | |||||
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. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Complete Millennium Musical, The (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1998 | ||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | Original cast recording SW (2004) | doollee no | #115979 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
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Notes: | book and lyrics by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor, music by Nick Graham, additional material by Dee Ryan | |||||
Synopsis: | a thousand years of world history - abridged | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Complete World of Sports, The (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2010 | ||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115980 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Martin and Tichenor | |||||
Synopsis: | 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'? | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Completely Hollywood (abridged) | ||
| 1st Produced: | Aug 2005 | |||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115981 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | (written by Martin and Tichenor, additional material by original cast member Dominic Conti) | |||||
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. | |||||
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Dancing On The Ceiling | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115982 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | from book by Franz Kafka | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Greatest Story Ever Sold | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Reduced Shakespeare Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | written by Martin and Tichenor | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #115983 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Martin and Tichenor | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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