Comedy based on Bard's works set to make Beijing debut

It has been almost 30 years since the US comedy troupe Reduced Shakespeare Company's show, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), made its debut. It has been running in London for almost 10 years, making it the longest running comedy in the city's theater history.

Now, the troupe of directors and actors Austin Tichenor, Reed Martin and Dan Saski, is bringing the show to Beijing for the first time.

In 2014, the show was performed at the second Wuzhen Theater Festival, an annual international event in the town of Wuzhen in East China's Zhejiang province.