Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
27 July – 7 September 2024
27 July – 7 September 2024
From £17.50
Ticket prices include a £2 venue restoration levy
book nowThis 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 this summer!
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.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® seeks to remind theatregoers that life is brighter when you are being silly.
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"Wherever I looked I saw hands over mouths and bodies bent over, shrieking with laughter."
West End Wilma
"This is no-holds-barred ecstasy in Shakespearean guise, and with a different culprit every night you can always come back for more."
Broadway Baby
"Explosively funny, this is remedy for anyone who ever thought Shakespeare was dull."
ThreeWeeks
Julia Bird
Puck / Hermia
Julia Bird
Puck / Hermia
Julia trained at East 15, which is where she also turned to a life of crime. Surprisingly, Julia is only the second of our cast members to have a criminal record—although she protests, as all criminals do, “it really was all a big misunderstanding!” It was during her time in the British prison system that Julia first started making her moonshine, and the rest is history…
Credits include: SIX: Shots of Vodka Later, Bingin’ in the Rain, A Little Night Cap
Favourite Drink: Vodka in a shot glass
Natalie Boakye
Oberon / Helena
Natalie Boakye
Oberon / Helena
Natalie trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and trained her liver at her local ‘The Royal Oak’. Natalie is rather soggy when drunk, due to the waterfall of tears that pour from her eyes for at least half the show. The reason for these tears? She’s happy and she just loves everyone.
Credits include: 2:22 – Time for a Drink?, King Beer.
Favourite drink: Tequila slammer using the salt from her own tears
Princess Donnough
Helena / Hermia
Princess Donnough
Helena / Hermia
Princess trained at the Kingdom School of Arts whilst simultaneously studying hard (liquor) at her local Wetherspoons. Princess is our most indecisive cast member… or is she? Princess also has a secret ambition to work with “zoo animals,” so it’s no surprise that Princess has ended up with this pack of wild misfits.
Credits include: Annie Get Your Gin, Romeo & Mint Julep, WICKED BLUE
Favourite drink: Disaronno and Coke
Eugene Evans
Lysander / Demetrius
Eugene Evans
Lysander / Demetrius
Eugene trained at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Eugene needed no training in the art of drinking as it’s in his blood. You see, Eugene is Irish, but what’s even better than that, you ask? Well, our Eugene became Irish royalty when he won silver in a Northern Irish all-star drinking contest. Is there any higher drinking award?… Other than gold?
Credits include: Death of an Ale Man, The Tiger Who Came for Long Island Iced Tea.
Favourite drink: Guinness. Obviously.
Charlie Keable
Puck / Lysander
Charlie Keable
Puck / Lysander
Charlie trained in musical theatre at Mountview but really honed his craft at Lucky Voice karaoke bar. Charlie is responsible for nearly every bad decision made at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe. There is no such thing as an early night when the ‘Booze Goblin’ is about.
Credits include: The Phantom of the Opera Bar, Back to the Future: The Boozical, Drunkle Vanya
Favourite Drink: Champagne, darling!
John Mitton
Lysander / Demetrius
John Mitton
Lysander / Demetrius
John trained at East 15 back in 1973. John was raised on booze, born in a time when alcohol was used to sterilise drinking water. Old Man Mitton has been with Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® since his early 40s and is still managing a few shows here and there.
Credits include: The Wizard of Ouzo, Disney’s Frozen Margarita, West Cider Story
Favourite Drink: Anything with milk
James Murfitt
Oberon / Demetrius
James Murfitt
Oberon / Demetrius
James studied Acting at Central School of Speech and Drama and has since continued his ‘training’ in many of Central London’s pubs. You may have been lucky enough to catch James in previous Sh!t-faced shows, and we can say that James is much new and improved! James no longer shits the bed, eats his boogies at the dinner table, or scratches his balls in public… Keep up the good work, James!
Credits include: Kinky Booze, Starlight Expresso Martini, A Pissedmas Carol
Favourite drink: A magnum bottle of Malbec
Stacey Norris
Helena / Oberon
Stacey Norris
Helena / Oberon
Stacey trained as an actor at Drama Studio London long after she trained as a drinker at her local park. Stacey is clumsy—so clumsy, in fact, that she’s self-diagnosed dyspraxic. When naked, Stacey looks like a bad banana and spends 5% of her income on arnica cream. Don’t get too close to ‘The Norris’ when she’s drunk, or you may find out the rules to ‘sticky lizard’.
Credits include: TV: This is Going to Hurt: Hangover Edition, EastEnders: Get in My Pub, A Chorus Wine.
Favourite Drink: The sweat from her castmates’ faces.
Beth-Louise Priestley
Hermia
Beth-Louise Priestley
Hermia
Beth trained as an actress at RADA (Royal Academy of Drinking Arts) and continues to train her liver each Sunday while taking Holy Communion. Beth’s spirit animal is a goblin, which is exactly what she turns into if she sniffs a shot of tequila. Beth joined Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® back in 2011 and holds the record for the most drunk shows ever performed.
Credits include: The Importance of Drinking Earnestly, The Worst Hangover: Nominated (Method) Actress, Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®: The Full Series (3546 eps).
Favourite drink: Really, really, really likes tequila, but really, really, really shouldn’t.
Stephanie Simpson
Puck / Hermia
Stephanie Simpson
Puck / Hermia
Stephanie trained as both an actress and a drinker at Birmingham Royal Conservatoire. Stephanie, along with Princess, is a fresh new liv…er…actor for us this Sh!t-faced season. The worst thing Stephanie has ever done when she was drunk was her ex…
Credits include: Film: The Hungover Games, A View from a Bar
Favourite drink: Lager
TICKET INFORMATION
From £17.50
Ticket prices include a £2 venue restoration levy
Venue
Leicester Square Theatre
Age Advisory
16+
Running Time
1 hr 40 mins including interval