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Photos: Inside Rehearsal For SH!T-FACED SHAKESPEARE at London's Leicester Square Theatre

Marking their eighth year of residency at London’s Leicester Square Theatre, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare is reviving their inaugural production at the venue, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, opening on 10 July until 7 September, before heading off on a UK tour. Check out all new rehearsal photos here!
Cast Set For Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare's A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM

Marking their eighth year of residency at London’s Leicester Square Theatre, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® has announced the full cast of drunkards and rogues who’ll be performing in the revival of their inaugural production at the venue, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, opening on 10 July until 7 September, before heading off on a UK tour.
Sh!t-Faced Showtime's A PISSEDMAS CAROL Comes to Leicester Square Theatre This Christmas

Returning to Leicester Square Theatre for a triumphantly tipsy fourth year, festive hit A Pissedmas Carol combines cast members from Sh!t-faced Showtime and Sh!t-faced Shakespeare for an all-singing, tipple-slinging, merriment-bringing truly alternative Christmas knees-up you won’t have seen before. 
A PISSEDMAS CAROL Announces Rescheduled London Dates

Sh!tfaced Showtime and Leicester Square Theatre have rescheduled shows to run throughout January! And since the show is led by the improvisation of an inebriated person, audiences needn't fear it will be too Christmassy, it could be about LITERALLY ANYTHING in the end.
BWW Review: SH!T-FACED SHAKESPEARE: MACBETH, Leicester Square Theatre

By the pricking of my thumbs, something tipsy this way comes. Iambic pentameter? No, Sh!tfaced Shakespeare is all about inebriated pentameter. After all the various British lockdowns and subsequent theatre closures, the company are back at Leicester Square Theatre to bring the Bard to masses in gallant boozy fashion. After all, there’s nothing like a hilarious tragedy.
BWW Review: SH!T-FACED SHOWTIME: A PISSEDMAS CAROL, Leicester Square Theatre

Magnificent Bastard Productions reveal the latest Christmas ace up their sleeve, presenting A Pissedmas Carol. In true Shit-faced Showtime fashion, they grab a beloved story and transform it into a jolly ol' drunken time by having a member of the cast highly inebriated before the curtain goes up.
Photo Flash: First Look at A PISSEDMAS CAROL at Leicester Square Theatre

Sh!t-Faced Showtime: A Pissedmas Carol comes to Leicester Square theatre 20 November 2019 – 5 January 2020.
The World Premiere Of SH!T FACED SHOWTIME: A PISSEDMAS CAROL Comes to Leicester Square

Combining cast members from Sh!t-faced Showtime and Sh!t-faced Shakespeare for the first time ever, A Pissedmas Carol is the all singing, all drinking alternative Christmas knees-up you never knew you wanted. Miserly Scrooge and his classic coterie of employees, relatives and ghosts travel through time having the night of his life a?" past, present and future. But will Scrooge be merry before the end? Or will it be the spirits that have had too many spirits? With one genuinely drunk cast member in every performance, A Pissedmas Carol is the ultimate a?oeYou'll never guess what happened to me last nighta?? story.
Fledgling Theatre's NECK OR NOTHING Shines A Light On Men's Mental Health

Fledgling Theatre present the world premiere of new comedy Neck or Nothing this spring, as part of Pleasance's You Will Know Their Names new writing season before transferring to Greenwich Theatre Studio. This funny and poignant play, Fledgling's latest show, shines a light on the under-reported issue of men's mental health.
Cast Announced for Antic Disposition's HENRY V

A company of fourteen British and French actors have been announced to lead the cast of Antic Disposition's Henry V. The culmination of four years of national and international touring, the critically-acclaimed production returns to English cathedrals this autumn to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War.
Photo Flash: In Rehearsal with Sh*t-faced Shakespeare's MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Love it or hate it, Shit-faced Shakespeare still three sheets to the wind and bouncing in a bacchic revel from one success to another. 2017 marks the 7th anniversary of the brand and sees their longest run in London with Much Ado About Nothing, coupled with the opening of their 4th market in the USA, Romeo and Juliet at the Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe festivals, plus dates at the London Wonderground, Udderbelly Southbank for both Shit-faced Shakespeare and Shit-faced Showtime. Around 30,000 people saw Shit-faced Shakespeare in the UK last year, 35,000 in the USA. BroadwayWorld has a sneak peek at the company in rehearsal below!
RADA Grad Freddie Stewart to Reprise Role in Antic Disposition's HENRY V

Recent RADA graduate Freddie Stewart is to reprise his performance in the title role of Antic Disposition's HENRY V.
Photo Flash: First Look at Antic Disposition's HENRY V

Recent RADA graduate Freddie Stewart has been cast in the title role in Shakespeare's HENRY V, in a site-specific production that marks award-winning Antic Disposition's 10th anniversary. Antic Disposition has won critical acclaim for staging visually striking productions in spectacular historic buildings, including Middle Temple Hall. HENRY V, boasting a joint British and French cast, will be staged in London's ancient Temple Church from tonight 24 August - Saturday 5 September 2015. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
BWW Reviews: HENRY V, Temple Church, August 24 2015

Gary Naylor sees an imaginative and spectacular staging of Henry V which makes good use of its location but needs to get the acoustics exactly right.
Recent RADA Grad Freddie Stewart Cast in Antic Disposition's HENRY V

Recent RADA graduate Freddie Stewart has been cast in the title role in Shakespeare's Henry V, in a site specific production that marks award-winning Antic Disposition's 10th anniversary.
Photo Flash: Ancient Temple Church Presents ROMEO AND JULIET

Following critically-acclaimed, sell-out productions of The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream and A Christmas Carol in historic Middle Temple Hall, Antic Disposition are to make the short journey to the ancient Temple Church in central London for their next production, Romeoand Juliet by William Shakespeare. It runs Saturday 30 August - Sunday 7 September.
Antic Disposition Presents ROMEO AND JULIET in Temple Church, Now thru 7 September

Following critically-acclaimed, sell-out productions of The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream and A Christmas Carol in Middle Temple Hall, Antic Disposition will stage Shakespeare's ROMEO AND JULIET in the ancient Temple Church from today 30 August - Sunday 7 September.
BWW Reviews: ROMEO AND JULIET, Temple Church, September 1 2014

Gary Naylor sees a unique production of Romeo and Juliet set in the nave of the extraordinary Temple Church, resting place of the legendary Knights Templar.

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