• Review For Us
    • In London or across the UK
    • at Edinburgh Fringe
  • List Your Show
  • Advertising
  • Musicals
  • Plays
  • Ballet & Dance
  • Previews
  • First Look
Theatre Weekly
  • Home
  • News
    • West End
    • Off-West End
    • Regional & Tours
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Digital Theatre
  • Tickets
    • Discounts
    • Musicals
    • Plays
    • Opera
    • Dance
    • Concerts
  • Edinburgh Fringe 2025
    • Edinburgh Fringe News
    • Edinburgh Fringe Previews
    • Edinburgh Fringe Interviews
  • Contact Us
    • Join us as a Reviewer
No Result
View All Result
Theatre Weekly
  • Home
  • News
    • West End
    • Off-West End
    • Regional & Tours
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Digital Theatre
  • Tickets
    • Discounts
    • Musicals
    • Plays
    • Opera
    • Dance
    • Concerts
  • Edinburgh Fringe 2025
    • Edinburgh Fringe News
    • Edinburgh Fringe Previews
    • Edinburgh Fringe Interviews
  • Contact Us
    • Join us as a Reviewer
No Result
View All Result
Theatre Weekly
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Sh!tfaced-Shakespeare to Present Hamlet at Leicester Square Theatre

by Staff Writer
April 3, 2019
Reading Time: 3 mins read
Shit faced Shakespeare® Hamlet ©Rah Petherbridge

Shit faced Shakespeare® Hamlet ©Rah Petherbridge

Sh!tfaced-Shakespeare® is finally ready to tackle the greatest dramatic work ever committed to page in the English language, Hamlet. The story of a whiny lad who goes a bit loopy and does some stabbings, featuring foul language, outrageous behaviour, terrible singing, rapidly expelled bodily fluids and dangerous swordplay, Shakespeare has long been considered ‘cultural’. Think of it like Game of Thrones with less boobs (probably).

Following Sh!t-faced Showtime®: Oliver With a Twist! (27th March – 12th April) and Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: The Taming of the Shrew (17th April – 1st June), Magnificent Bastard Productions continue their extensive run of dates at Leicester Square Theatre by hamming up Hamlet (29th June – 14th September).

Each performance takes a cast of professionally trained, Shakespearian actors and every night one carefully selected company member is tasked with drinking for a full four hours prior to show time. The remainder of the sober cast are tasked with wrangling our drunken hero through a 70 minute adapted script trying their level best to keep the show ‘on the rails’ while incorporating into the world of the play whatever drunken shenanigans are thrown at them. With the original text reduced to the primest theatrical cuts and no time to spare, every night is a high-energy race to the finish through an ever changing series of drunken detours.

       

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.

Founding member of Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® Rev. Lewis Ironside said, “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 four 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 three continents and become a beloved staple of the West End scene. Whether you consider it high art or merely disrespectful, lowest common denominator nonsense, one cannot deny its indisputable place among the pantheon of modern British theatre… The Play That Goes Wrong is taking bookings through to summer.”

You mightalso like

Jon House in Wilko (c) Nick Haeffner

Review: Wilko: Love and Death and Rock and Roll at Leicester Square Theatre

NTL 2025 The Fifth Step (credit Johan Persson)

National Theatre Live Announces Star-Studded Cinema Line-Up Featuring Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Fifth Step, and Hamlet

Staff Writer

Staff Writer

At Theatre Weekly we are dedicated to giving theatre a new audience. Our News, Reviews and Interviews are all written with the audience in mind, helping you decide what to see next. And when you have decided, our great ticket deals will help save you money too.

Related Articles

Jon House in Wilko (c) Nick Haeffner
Reviews

Review: Wilko: Love and Death and Rock and Roll at Leicester Square Theatre

NTL 2025 The Fifth Step (credit Johan Persson)
Digital

National Theatre Live Announces Star-Studded Cinema Line-Up Featuring Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Fifth Step, and Hamlet

Hamlet image supplied by publicist
News

Hamlet Cast and Creative Team Announced for Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®’s 15th Anniversary Production

Polka Theatre New Season image supplied by publicist
News

Polka Theatre Unveils Autumn/Winter 2025/26 Season Packed with Family Favourites and New Adventures

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

I agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.

ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Twitter Facebook Youtube Instagram

At Theatre Weekly we give theatre a new audience. You'll find our theatre news, theatre reviews and theatre interviews are written from an audience point of view. Our great value London theatre tickets will get you the best deal for your theatre tickets.
Theatre Weekly, 124 City Road, London EC1V 2NX
  • Join Our Community
  • Privacy Policy
  • Cookie Policy
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Contact Us
  • Advertising

Recent News

Sinead Matthews and Cast in Til The Stars Come Down credit Manuel Harlan

Review: Till the Stars Come Down at Theatre Royal Haymarket

Ruaridh Mollica by YellowBellyPhoto, Joe Locke by Ruth Crafer, Sophie Melville by The Other Richard. Artwork by Feast (1)

Clarkston to have UK Premiere in the West End Starring Joe Locke, Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville

© 2022 Theatre Weekly

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Tickets
  • Digital Theatre
  • News
    • News
    • West End
    • Off West End
    • Regional & Tours
    • Digital
  • Interviews
  • Reviews
  • Edinburgh Fringe 2025
    • Edinburgh Fringe News
    • Edinburgh Fringe Previews
    • Edinburgh Fringe Interviews
  • Contact Us
    • Join us as a Reviewer

© 2022 Theatre Weekly