The zany Reduced Shakespeare Company will bring its madcap, “The Complete World of Sports (abridged)” to Wartburg College Tuesday, March 20.

The three-man comedy troupe’s fast-paced ESPN parody will document the global history of athletic competition from the earliest cavemen playing “Neanderthal in the Middle” to “Extreme Curling” at 7:30 p.m. in Neumann Auditorium as the final act in the 2011-12 Wartburg College Artist Series.

The tour de farce of physical theater has been called “a triumph of speed, endurance, comic timing and high-scoring wordplay, a sharply satiric game plan and an all-out embrace of sports as fun.”

The Boston Globe described it as “a merciless but affectionate satire of an ESPN-type broadcast that owes as much to the insanity of Monty Python as to the inanity of actual sports programs,” adding, “The merry pranksters … cover every single sport ever played on every continent in the entire history of the world in under two hours.”

Theatergoers are encouraged to wear the sports jersey of their favorite team to the performance.

Tickets are available online at www.wartburg.edu/artist, by calling 319 352-8691 or at the Saemann Student Center ticket office, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Monday-Friday. Adult tickets are $15-25. K-12 tickets are $10.

A preconcert meal is available for $18.75 at 6 p.m. in the Heritage Room of Saemann Student Center. Tickets can be purchased online at www.wartburg.edu/artist. A buffet also is available in the Mensa student cafeteria from 5:15 to 7 p.m.; adults, $9, and children 5-12, $4.50.