You've heard of history, illustrated? Well, this might be referred to as history, titilated.

Matt Coats, Shawn Measles, and Joe Moye open tonight at the Forbes House in downtown Marysville in a dinner entertainment to run each subsequent Thursday night through November.

From the authors of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) comes the hilarious, fast-paced satire called The Complete History of America (abridged). (Why tinker wih a succesful formula?)

In a series of sketches that move at breakneck speed, Matt, Shawn, and Joe scamper through American history cheerfully running riot over 500 years of our country's past.

Past reviewers have liked the work of zany authors Adam Long, Reed Martin, & Austin Tichenor.

"This History of America should be a required course.," opined Terry Byrne, of the Boston Herald.

History has never been this much fun. Or as delightfully mutilated.

The show is produced by The Acting Company Dinner Theater, with the permission of Broadway Play Publishing Inc.

Tickets for dinner and a show, $37.50; show and dessert only, $20. Call (530)742-3180 for reservations.