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Well, not literally, but artistically speaking, stone soup and sound theatre companies will bed down together for a joint production of the hilarious compleat works of wllm shskpr abridged, originally produced and adapted by the reduced shakespeare company jess borgeson, adam long and daniel singer. The compleat works of willm shkspr and millions of other books are. The complete works of william shakespeare abridged is a play written by adam long, daniel. The compleat wrks of wllm shkspr abridged is not the only work by the prolific reduced shakespeare company. The complete works of william shakespeare by daniel singer.
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