Reed Martin, above, and Austin Tichenor of the Reduced Shakespeare Co. are coming to the aid of the Santa Rosa Junior College theater department as it copes with statewide education budget cuts.

Martin, who grew up in Sonoma and still lives there, and Tichenor, his longtime writing and acting partner from Los Angeles, will perform their new show, “Completely Hollywood (abridged),” Feb. 10 at the college, before going on to open the show in Washington, D.C.

“The Reduced Shakespeare Co., with Reed and Austin and everybody, has volunteered to do this benefit peformance for the Santa Rosa JC theater arts department,” said Leslie McCauley, artistic director of the department.

“What we want to make clear is that this is the Reduced Shakespeare Co. performing. This isn’t us performing their material, which happens so often in the county,” she added.

“It’s one night only, and of course, we’re hoping to sell out Burbank Auditorium, so we can offset some of the budget cuts,” McCauley said.

Since 1989, Martin has performed all over the United States and in England with the Reduced Shakespeare Company, and co-wrote the last five of their six hit shows, which condense huge topics — Shakespeare’s complete works, the Bible or all of American history — into a single two-hour performance.

The benefit performance of “Completely Hollywood (abridged)” will be at 8 p.m. Feb. 10 Burbank Auditorium, Santa Rosa Junior College, 1501 Mendocino Ave. Tickets: $30. 527-4343, www.santarosa.edu/theatrearts.

Last spring, Jennifer King directed a production of “All the Great Books (Abridged)” at Sebastopol’s Sonoma County Repertory Theater that had audiences howling with laughter.

If you missed it, don’t worry. You’re getting a second chance.

Long a mainstay at the Rep, King is also artistic director at Napa Valley College, and she’s bringing back the show for a reprise on campus, with the same cast.

The premise is a variation on a nightmare familiar to most of us: you’re in a makeup class for world literature, required for graduation. And graduation is two hours from now.

The only tutors available to help you cram for the last-minute lit exam are, from left above, the Student Teacher (Keith Baker), the Coach (Dodds Delzell) and the lofty Professor (Chad Yarish).

A quick recap from last May’s review — abridged, of course:

“In a John Madden-style chalk talk, the Coach breaks down the action in Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Women.’ When the girl’s father enters the Civil War, Coach observes, ‘He was signed by the Yankees.’

“The Prof talks over everyone’s heads, but the Student Teacher isn’t daunted by his superior’s vocabulary. ‘I’m not celibate,’ the apprentice educator retorts. ‘My parents were married.’

“Pop culture allusions mingle with fractured literature. ‘Into the Valley of the Dolls rode the 600,’ one of the book manglers recites. (Tennyson’s ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ was never lighter.)”

The show was written by Austin Tichenor and Sonoma’s Reed Martin, resident mad geniuses of the Reduced Shakespeare Company, famed for reducing all of the Bard’s work to a single evening’s entertainment.

The Napa Valley College performances of the show will be at 8 p.m. Sept. 11-12 and 18-19, with matinees at 2 p.m. Sept. 13 and 20. $10-$15. 259-8077.