MSND by Britain's Shit-faced Shakespeare Coming to Somerville in April-May 2015

    

Shit-faced Shakespeare ®

Shit-faced Shakespeare is the deeply highbrow fusion of an entirely serious Shakespeare play (Midsummer Night's Dream)  with an entirely shit-faced cast member.

Side-splitting, raucous and completely interactive, the show has been running since 2010 and has already entertained over 30,000 eager theatre goers across the UK. Having successfully completed multiple sell-out runs of the Edinburgh and Brighton Fringe festivals. Now the production is coming to Boston!

With a genuinely drunken professional actor selected at random every night, no two shows are ever the same and audiences can even dictate when the actor gets to drink more to prevent unwanted sobriety.

Shit-Faced Shakespeare seeks to introduce a new generation of theatre-goers to the works of the Bard by reviving the raucous, interactive and vibrant nature of Elizabethan theatre with a very modern twist - reminding them as we go to always enjoy Shakespeare responsibly.

 Shit-faced Shakespeare by the numbers:

· 6 Years old and still 0 deaths
· Over 150 professional show performed
· More than 1,400 cans and over 375 bottles of beer consumed on stage
· Times the Dawson's Creek theme tune has been drunkenly sung: 37
· Approximately 4,450 Units of alcohol drank in preparation for shows
· 29 individual nipples displayed on stage ( 62% of them male)
· £179.90 worth of Domino's pizza ordered during a single show (it was 2 for 1 Tuesday...)
· Number of prosthetic limbs used during sword fights: 1

"Genuinely hilarious" - Guardian
"The funniest show at the Fringe" - Daily Star
"Very rock 'n' roll" - Times

“Is this a stagger I see before me?...You’re Bard!” Sun

WHAT:
Shit-faced Shakespeare
by Magnificent Bastard Productions
produced by Gabriel Kuttner and Daniel Berger-Jones, in association with
 Cambridge Historical Tours

Cast:

Lewis Ironside :: Puck / Lysander
Stacey Norris :: Helena / Hermia
John Sebastian Borelli :: Demetrius
Beth-Louise Priestley :: Hermia
Saul Marron :: Lysander / Demetrius


An adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream By William Shakespeare & The Company with additional material by Lewis Ironside;



When:
Previews: April 10th, 11th, 12th, & 14th
Opening: Wednesday, April 15th at 7:30pm
Runs through May 1, 2015; 

Where: Davis Square Theatre
255 Elm Street
Somerville, MA
(617) 684-5335
Tickets: shitfacedshakespeare.eventbrite.com
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For More Information: www.shit-facedshakespeare.com
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For all publicity related inquiries:
Laura Sullivan at Drive Public Relations + Consulting :: laura@driveprc.com or 617.286.2064