SH!T-FACED SHAKESPEARE®
CELEBRATE THEIR 15TH YEAR WITH
ONE OF SHAKESPEARE’S MOST POPULAR TRAGEDIES, HAMLET
RUNNING AT LEICESTER SQUARE THEATRE FROM 7 AUGUST – 21 SEPTEMBER 2025
FOLLOWED BY A UK TOUR
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare®are excited to once again drunkenly stomp all over the greatest dramatic work ever committed to page in the English language: the story of a privileged whiny lad who goes a bit bonkers and does some stabbings.
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® have toured the world, broken America, established themselves on London’s West End, won numerous awards, and survived a zero-star review in The Times. Now, they will be celebrating 15 years on the wagon with one of the Bard’s most popular tragedies: Hamlet, which will run at Leicester Square Theatre from 7 August to 21 September 2025.
Featuring a cast of professional Shakespearean actors, this unique production takes an unpredictable twist each night as one performer is chosen to be deliberately intoxicated for up to four hours before showtime. The rest of the cast must then navigate the play, improvising their way through the unpredictable chaos that springs from their inebriated colleague’s booze-fuelled antics.
Stacey Norris, director said, “Fifteen years of drunken debauchery, Shakespearean chaos, and somehow—against all odds—we’re still here. How? No idea. How are we still alive? Even bigger mystery. But here we are, raising a glass (or several) to 15 years of beautifully boozy Bard, and what better way to celebrate than with the greatest tragedy of all—our own survival. See you at Leicester Square Theatre, if we make it that far.”
This Sh!t-faced Shakespeare® production of Hamlet will be directed by Stacey Norris, produced by James Murfitt and Johanna Rigg for Leicester Square Theatre, dance choreography from Beth-Louise Priestley and fight choreography from Robbie Capaldi, lighting design by Tom Williams, set design by Nicola Jones, costume design by Lorna Jean Costumes, marketed by Tom McGregor, with PR from ANRPR.
Casting will be announced in due course.
Following the production’s run in London, the show will tour the UK, visiting Albert Halls, Bolton (1 October), Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield (2 October), Princes Hall, Aldershot (3 October), The Exchange, Twickenham (4 October), Lichfield Garrick (7 October), The Albany Theatre, Coventry (8 October), Taunton Brewhouse (9 October), Exmouth Pavilion (10 October), The Berry Theatre, Hedge End (11 October), Chelmsford Theatre (16 October), The Haymarket, Basingstoke (17 October), Exeter Corn Exchange (18 October), Westlands Entertainment Venue, Yeovil (19 October), Palace Theatre, Southend (21 October), Corn Exchange, Ipswich (22 October), The Cresset, Peterborough (23 October), The Capitol Horsham (25 October), The Old Market, Brighton (26 October), Komedia Bath (28 October), Kenton Theatre, Henley (29 October), Farnham Maltings (30 October), Shanklin Theatre, Isle Of Wight (31 October), New Theatre Royal Portsmouth (1 November), Tivoli, Wimborne (2 November), Royal & Derngate, Northampton (4 – 5 November), Tyne Theatre & Opera House, Newcastle (6 November), Scarborough Spa (7 November), Middleborough Town Hall (8 November), Epic Studios, Norwich (12 November), Norwich Theatre (13 November), Lincoln Arts Centre (14 November), Old Woollen, Leeds (15 November).