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Stage review: Shakespeare with puns and pratfalls, comedy and chaos

by Christopher Rawson

In a very old tradition, the Pittsburgh Public Theater has chosen to follow the season's highpoint, a wonderful "Hamlet," with that tragedy's complete antithesis, the Reduced Shakespeare Company's "William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)." Whereas "Hamlet" is . . . well, let's assume you know what "Hamlet" is . . . this "Long Lost Shakes" is puns and pratfalls, sly comedy and chaos.

SOURCE: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at 7:28am on June 13, 2018