REVIEW: Sh*t Faced Showtime, Leicester Square Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Sophie Adnitt reviews Magnificent Bastards latest production Sh*t-Faced Showtime – Oliver With A Twist at Leicester Square Theatre.
Sophie Adnitt reviews Magnificent Bastards latest production Sh*t-Faced Showtime – Oliver With A Twist at Leicester Square Theatre.
In Shit-faced Showtime: Oliver With A Twist one actor’s gotta sink a bottle or two before curtain up.
Shit-faced Shakespeare return in 2018 with Romeo and Juliet and The Merchant Of Venice at London’s Leicester Square Theatre.
Shit-Faced Shakespeare, with the essence of the rustic fringe festival at its heart, is a welcoming night of inebriated indecency which unshackles you from reality.
If you can get a ticket for the remaining shows, do. If not, she’ll be at the Wyndham’s as ‘Lady Day’ in May. Perfect.
Celebrating their 7th Anniversary this year, Shit-Faced Shakespeare is back in London’s West End still three sheets to the wind with their new challenge – a season of Much Ado About Nothing as you’ve never seen it before. Their aim, to take one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, add one hammered actor whilst trying to reach the curtain call without a calamity, an injury or a lawsuit. Last year Shit-faced Shakespeare performed to over 30,000 people in the UK and over 35,000 in the USA. Much Ado About Nothing will be their longest run to date in the UK. Filled with mistaken identities, petty arguments and put-downs, and the course of love not running smoothly (not least of all because friends keep interfering). Sounds like a Friday night in any British boozer. But what if Hero decides she really would rather marry the chap in the second row, or if Benedick … Read more
As Brian Epstein, Andrew Lancel turns out a stunning portrayal of a complex man who is as strong and charismatic as he is emotionally frail and weak. It’s an incredible performance that commands the stage with his battered arrogance.
For any musical theatre fan, this is a night of sheer bliss. For anyone else it’s a night of comedy gold.