TELLURIDE – Jeb Berrier will do anything for Shakespeare.

“Some of the stuff happens so fast,” thespian/comedian/impresario Berrier says of the three-man production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged he’s mounting at the Sheridan Opera House, in which he is acting, directing and producing, Friday, Dec. 18-Tuesday, Dec. 22, each night at 8 p.m.

It had better be fast, because 37 plays and some hundred or so sonnets are covered, in the course of the evening’s entertainment.

“It’s a fun play and it’s a hard play with a lot of costume changes and a lot of stuff to choreograph….”

So there’s dancing?

Berrier swallows hard, and begins again.

“No, no, very little dancing, no dancing, a little tiny bit of dancing,” says Berrier, whose thoughts sometimes come together while he’s talking.

“Juliet dances a little bit,” he says. “That’s me.”

Turns out Berrier is the guy who gets all the women’s roles (a man playing women, in time-honored Shakespearean tradition). Costar Buff Hooper gets the stud roles – like Macbeth in Macbeth, Marc Anthony in Anthony and Cleopatra and the title role in Julius Caesar. Ashley Boling rounds out the three-man cast, effectively playing second fiddle in a barrage of roles like Friar Tuck, and Juliet’s nurse, and what Berrier calls the “rude mechanicals” – Shakespearean shoptalk for characters with actual jobs to do.

Shoptalk is imperative for this fast-moving synopsis of western literature’s greatest playwright.

“You basically move through the plays as fast as you can,” Berrier says. “Some of the plays get relatively long treatment” – among them, Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet.

Others, like Macbeth, get dispatched with fast.

“Macbeth lasts about a minute,” he says. “There’s a witch, there’s Macbeth, there’s a swordfight – and then his head gets kicked into the audience.

“It’s a little over the top,” he allows.

“The histories are all covered” – including what Berrier calls “the Henries,” as in Henry IV, V, VI and VIII.

No Henry the Seventh?

Seems not, but “Richard II, Richard III, King John, King Lear….

“He’s actually fictional,” amends Berrier, of Lear.

For Othello, the three actors “just tell the story, in rap. All three of us rapping, in three-part harmony.”

Complete Works is the brainchild of a group called the Reduced Shakespeare Company, who staged it in London where it ran for more than a decade; more recently, they have debuted The Complete History of America and The Complete Bible.

“I heard about it a long time ago,” Berrier allows, “and I kept hearing about the play, over the years. People kept telling me I needed to do it,” said Berrier, now in his sixth holiday season production of a comedy in the Opera House.

“I’ve never seen it,” says Berrier.

Two days before opening night, he’ll say this much: “It’s very lowbrow. It’s the lowest-brow treatment of Shakespeare there is. It really does make it accessible to everybody.”

That said, he adds: “It’s totally family-friendly entertainment; there’s nothing naughty in it.” Fun for the family, Friday, Dec. 18-Tuesday, Dec. 22, 8 p.m. at the Sheridan Opera House. Tickets general-admission; $10 for kids and $15 for grownups.