Following their run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Shit-faced Shakespeare’s all-singing, all-dancing, all-drinking sibling, Shit-faced Showtime, returns to London with an intoxicated spin on the widely-loved literary and musical classic. Join Oliver Twist as he meets an array of cunning and colorful characters in this cockney knees-up with’ booze, glorious booze, featuring songs from Oliver! and other Broadway hits.
Brought to you by the Fringe phenomenon Shit-faced Shakespeare, Shit-faced Showtime is a combination of professionally trained musical theatre performers and copious amounts of alcohol. Featuring intricate harmonies, complex choreography and one entirely shit-faced actor every night…What could possibly go right?
So how does it work? Each performance has a cast of actors, who all arrive 4 hours before the start of the show for a ‘party’ – however this party is dry for all but one performer, who gets Shit-faced. The rest is a balancing act between the songs as they appear in the sheet music and the improv rules, which state you must go with WHATEVER the drunk actor decides to do. “Yes, and…” rather than “No, but…”. Every single show is a one-off. Every single performance has a different drunk actor. Every single time they are genuinely inebriated.
Producer and performer Issy Wroe Wright says “Magnificent Bastard Productions are proud to be back and bigger and more bladdered than ever. With our brand-new look and fresh reprobates ripe (strawberries, ripe) for the picking, we can’t wait to get our drunken mitts on this cockney classic.”
Shit-faced Showtime: Oliver With a Twist! Is at the Leicester Square Theatre 5th – 9th September 2018.
