The show is set to open on its UK tour at the Theatre Chipping Norton on 18 February, with a national press night taking place on the 26 March at Bristol Old Vic Theatre.
Full casting has now been announced for the new version of the West End classic The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), visiting 30 venues across the UK next year.
After nine years in London’s West End, two TV specials and performances in over 20 countries, the Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC) will once again present all 37 of Shakespeare’s plays for audiences.
Directed by Adam Long, the cast is set to include: Efé Agwele (A Family Business -UK Tour, Thrown – National Theatre of Scotland, Hamlet – National Theatre Studios, Mad House – Ambassadors Theatre), Woogie Jung (Caged Sisters Musical – Camden Fringe, Calling – Hoxton Hall), Tom Pavey (currently studying for a DPhil in Biology at the University of Oxford, investigating the impact of anthropogenic climate change on lions across time, making his professional theatre debut) and Kiran Raywilliams (Anarkia – High Tide Theatre, Run Rebel – UK Tour and Henry V – Young Shakespeare Company).
Director and co-writer Adam Long said, “Years ago, when we first started reducing Shakespeare in San Francisco, we experimented with performing Shakespeare’s plays backwards in the hope that we might understand them better that way. In London last month, we were lucky enough to witness an exciting work-in-progress production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) devised by Efé, Woogie, Tom and Kiran. It was an immersive contemporary art/dance-fusion piece based on Troilus and Cressida, climaxing with an appearance by an electronic Godzilla. We immediately knew that we’d found three kindred spirits.”
Presented by The Theatre Chipping Norton and Selladoor Worldwide and written by Adam Long , Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, this 2026 production has set and costume design by Liz Cooke, lighting by Alexandra Stafford and movement directed by Amy Lawrence.
To find out more visit: https://completeworkstour.co.uk/