14 years ago, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® set out on the world's longest bar crawl and have 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 sell-out crowds and most importantly, making people roar with laughter ever since.
Their raucous and critically acclaimed production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, currently playing a summer season at the Leicester Square Theatre, is coming to Swindon’s Wyvern Theatre on 2 October, as part of a UK autumn tour.
A spokesperson said: "This year, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® are pouring their legendary cock-eyed chaos into the Bard-shaped vessel that is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Think drunken donkeys, fandangled fairies and mullered mechanicals… it’s hard to imagine anything more magical, right?
"Each night, a rotating cast member will get seriously Shakespeareanly sloshed and attempt to perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream as you have never seen before. Making for a different show every night, nobody (not even the cast) knows in which direction the show will stumble. Come and get fuddled in the forest with us! "
Other tour venues in the region include Bath (5 November) so audiences in the South West can catch the show again – and with a different drunk every night, a repeat visit can be fun!
The full cast will be Julia Bird (SIX: Shots of Vodka Later, Bingin’ in the Rain, A Little Night Cap) as ‘Puck / Hermia’, Natalie Boakye (2:22 - Time for a Drink?, King Beer) as ‘Oberon / Helena’, Eugene Evans (Death of an Ale Man, The Tiger Who Came for Long Island Iced Tea) in the roles of ‘Lysander / Demetrius’, Charlie Keable (The Phanton of the Opera Bar, Back to the Future: The Boozical) as ‘Puck / Lysander’, Princess Donnough (Annie Get Your Gin, Romeo & Mint Julep, WICKED BLUE) as ‘Helena / Hermia’, John Mitton (The Wizard of Ouzo, Disney’s Frozen Margarita, West Cider Story) as ‘Lysander and Demetrius’, James Murfitt (Kinky Booze, Starlight Expresso Martini, A Pissedmas Carol) as ‘Oberon / Demetrius’, Stacey Norris (This is Going to Hurt: Hangover Edition, Eastenders: Get In My Pub, A Chorus Wine) as ‘Helena / Oberon’, Beth-Louise Priestley (The Importance of Drinking Earnestly, The Worst Hangover: Nominated (Method) Actress, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare: The Full Series) and Stephanie Simpson (The Hungover Games, A View from a Bar) as ‘Puck / Hermia’. King Beer) as ‘Oberon / Helena’,
The production was originally directed and adapted by Lewis Ironside, with the new production being directed by Stacey Norris, produced by Johanna Rigg, Stacey Norris and Beth-Louise Priestley for Leicester Square Theatre, dance choreography by Beth-Louise Priestley, fight choreography by Robbie Capaldi, lighting design by Tom Williams, set design by Nicola Jones, costume design by Lorna Jean Costumes, photography by Andrew AB Photography, marketing by Tom McGregor, PR by ANRPR, finance by Fiona Hennessey and based on an original concept by Rev. Lewis Ironside and Cpt. Chris Snelson.
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