Like Charles Dickens? How do you feel about Oliver doing the Twist? And David Copperfield, of course, is the guy who can make the Statue of Liberty disappear.

There’s nothing like great literature. And sure enough, this is nothing like great literature. It’s a show about books that doesn’t try to include everything that’s in the books. Just the high (and low) points.

Imagine you’re in a makeup class for world literature, required for graduation. And graduation is two hours from now.

That’s the premise of “All the Great Books (Abridged),” written by the mad geniuses (including Sonoma’s Reed Martin) who previously reduced all of Shakespeare’s work to a single evening’s entertainment.

In the current Sonoma County Repertory Theater production, 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).

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.)

If you’re getting the idea that this show is about as literary as the Three Stooges, you’re right.

This production is all about the actors. Can Delzell, Baker and Yarish (directed by Jennifer King) get the laughs going, and keep them coming? In the spirit of the Obama era ” Yes, they can.

The details: Sonoma County Repertory Theater, 104 N. Main St., Sebastopol. 8 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, through June 14. $18-$23. 823-0177, the-rep.com.