What better way to celebrate fifteen years than with the story of a privileged, whiny lad who goes a bit bonkers and does some stabbings? ‘Hamlet‘ will run at Leicester Square Theatre from Thursday 7 August to Sunday 21 September, followed by a UK tour.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare have toured the world, broken America, established themselves on London’s West End, won numerous awards, and survived a zero-star review in The Times.
Fifteen years ago, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare set out on the world’s longest bar crawl and has been staggering from theatre to theatre ever since. From Edinburgh to Australia, Boston to Southend, this bunch of irreverent drama queens have been shaking up The Bard, performing to sellout crowds and most importantly, making people roar with laughter ever since. Sh!t-faced Shakespeare has delighted audiences the world over with their high-brow mix of classical Elizabethan drama and no-holds-barred drunken antics.
Featuring a rotating cast of the finest classically trained actors, the choicest cuts of Shakespearean classics, and more inebriated antics than you can shake a weather-beaten bull’s pizzle at! Sh!t-faced Shakespeare is the unique theatrical experience that has left audiences roaring in the aisles the world over.
With a genuinely inebriated cast member each night, no two shows are ever the same…
Making their Sh!tfaced debuts are Josh Bryant-Jones (The Importance of Being Earnest with Erasmus Theatre), Aaron Phinehas Peters (Mind Mangler: Member of The Tragic Circle with Mischief Theatre, Retail Is Hell: Webseries, Eastenders), Kate Roche (Macbeth and Romeo & Juliet with Dickens Theatre Company, Bard In The Yard with Will & Co Theatre, The Merchant of Venice at Stafford Gatehouse), Shady Murphy (The Taming of the Shrew with HER Productions, The Heat Shop with Prime Theatre, Fighting Irish at Belgrade Theatre).
Returning to the Sh!t-faced Shakespeare company are Jamie Sandersfield (Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet), John Mitton (Oliver Twist at Cambridge Corn Exchange, A Pissedmas Carol at Leicester Square Theatre), Princess Donnough (The Wedding Speech at SOHO Theatre, House of Shame at White Bear Theatre and Romeo and Juliet with Open Bar Theatre) and Charlie Keable (Cockfosters at The Turbine Theatre and Locomotive for Murder as part of Pinch Punch Improv at Edinburgh Fringe).
This Sh!t-faced Shakespeare production of ‘Hamlet’ is directed by Stacey Norris, produced by James Murfitt and Johanna Rigg for Leicester Square Theatre, dance choreography from Beth-Louise Priestley and fight choreography from Robbie Capaldi, lighting design by Tom Williams, set design by Nicola Jones, costume design by Lorna Jean Costumes, and musical arrangement by Emily Stratford.
James Murfitt, Producer, said, “From our humble beginnings performing drunk in gardens and festivals to selling out Edinburgh and the West End, across the pond and down under, here’s to another 15 years of more irreverent drunken chaos!”
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare Hamlet is playing now at Leicester Square Theatre – Book Tickets.
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