Sh!tfaced Shakespeare take an approach I have never seen before. They try to do a Shakespeare show as classically as possible but have one of the actors rip-roaring drunk.
I waited in a line that wrapped around the building, listening to the conversations of the people behind me saying, "Whho jo you thhink will be jrunk, Rromeo or Jjuliet?"...We were seeing "A Midsummer Night’s Dream".
But ya know what, the show is at least bringing people to the theatre who might not usually come.
The start of the show was unfortunately spoiled for me as two gents behind us were very intoxicated and chose to pick a fight with me because a guy in the row in front of me told them to shut the f*ck up due to their constant loud talking and playing Tik-Toks on their phone.
Thankfully though, the staff at McEwan Hall sorted that out fairly quickly and had them removed
The show was fun, but for an avid theatregoer, I felt it a little strange to stress to the audience at the beginning that the actors, aside from the drunk one, were going to be performing classical Shakespeare unless the drunk actor intervened, yet the other actors were constantly improvising throughout.
I also felt, at times, that the drunk actor was putting a lot of his antics on for show. It felt very disengenuine, aside from one moment where Demetrius is telling Helena he hates her and actor broke character to say, "That's only the character though cause I actually do love you, Freya."
Overall, I just wasn't very impressed. It had funny moments in it, but perhaps I would be writing a different review if I hadn't been accosted by the two guys behind me at the start of the show.
The rest of the theatre was having a rip-roaring time though, and as I said before, there were lots of people literally talking about how they never go to theatre, so it's at least introducing them to the arts. The performers are all a great talent too, I just feel like the shtick didn't work for me.
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Hoping you all a safe, happy, and fantastic fringe! 😁
Love,
Tony x
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