The smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, award-winning, multi sell-out fringe phenomena are back in London with no less than THREE shows to dominate the Leicester Square theatre like never before.
Sh*t-Faced Showtime present Oliver with a Twist in the spring to get the tipsy toes tapping, followed by the UK premiere of the Sh*t-Faced Shakespeare version of The Taming of the Shrew that has been being presented in the USA, before a whopping final 13 weeks of Hamlet, transferring from its bumper Edinburgh festival Fringe run in the enormous McEwan Hall last August, and more TBC in the Autumn…
So how does it work? Well each performance has a cast of six actors, who all arrive four hours before the start of the show for a ‘party’ – however this party is dry for all but one performer, who gets Sh*t-faced. The rest is a balancing act between the (trimmed down to an hour) Shakespeare script and improv rules, which state you must go with WHATEVER the drunk actor decides to do. Every single show is a one-off. Every single performance has a different drunk actor. Every single time they are genuinely inebriated.
Formed in 2010 Magnificent Bastard Productions were just friends who loved creating unexpected and unpredictable theatre at music festivals such as Secret Garden Party. Sh*t-faced now performs across the UK, Australia and USA in Boston, Atlanta and Austin. They sell-out at the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringes annually, and in 2015 expanded into Sh*t-faced Showtime, a pissed-up hour of harmonious Broadway showtunes. In addition to these UK dates the company will be presenting Sh*t-faced shows at Brighton fringe, York Fringe, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, in the USA and in Australia this year.
“Having remorselessly mucked about on the UK’s Fringe Theatre circuit for several years a small, and relatively modest, comedy show finally exploded onto the West End stage some 4 years ago. This “little show that could” has since gone onto wow hundreds of thousands of audience members, tour the globe, win numerous awards, sell packed houses across 3 continents and become a beloved staple of the West End scene. Whether you consider it high art or merely disgraceful, cheap, low-brow, lowest common denominator nonsense, one cannot deny it’s indisputable place among the pantheon of modern British theatre.” Rev.Lewis Ironside
Showtime is at Leicester Square Theatre 27th March – 12th April
The Taming of the Shrew is at Leicester Square Theatre 17th April – 1st June
Hamlet is at Leicester Square Theatre 19th June – 14th September
