Cramming 37 plays into 97 minutes sounds pretty manic, and so it proved when three madcap men in tights played all the roles with the Bard's classics condensed into one long romp.
The show contained plenty of comic material as Othello was rapped, Romeo and Juliet burlesqued and Hamlet reduced to a farce.
Actors Simon Cole, Glenn Conroy and Ryan Ellsworth provided tremendous enthusiasm, but there were times when their frantic actions failed to produce the hilarity they sought.
After ten years at the Criterion Theatre, The Complete Works became London's longest-running comedy. But a half-full Devonshire Park showed that Eastbourne theatregoers were not influenced by the hype.
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