Sh!t-faced Shakespeare
Hamlet
Winner Best of Comedy Weekly Award 2025 Adelaide Fringe
The hilarious, smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, multi sell-out comedy festival phenomenon returns to Melbourne to help you enjoy Shakespeare responsibly!
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare is the hilarious blend of an entirely serious Shakespeare play with an entirely sh!t-faced actor. What could possibly go right? With a genuinely inebriated cast member each night, no two shows are ever the same in this raucous, riotous rampage through one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, the story of a privileged whiny lad who goes a bit bonkers and does some stabbings, Hamlet.
Warning, this show includes a genuinely drunk performer and anything could happen. This show may contain drinking, swearing, nudity, simulated acts of a sexual nature, terrible singing, actual acts of a sexual nature and, quite possibly – some actual Shakespeare.
'The most fun I've ever had at the Festival. I left with tears streaming down my face and a sore belly from laughing far far too hysterically hard.' ★★★★★ Collage Adelaide
'No-holds-barred ecstasy.' ★★★★★ Broadway Baby (UK)
'Hilarious.' ★★★★★ Adelaide Advertiser
'A hilarious, laugh-a-minute riot.' ★★★★ The Clothesline
Suitable for audiences 15+
Audience participation
Language – occasional coarse language
References to or simulation of violence
References to self-harm and suicide
Sudden loud noises
Winner Best of Comedy Weekly Award 2025 Adelaide Fringe
The hilarious, smash-hit, internationally acclaimed, multi sell-out comedy festival phenomenon returns to Melbourne to help you enjoy Shakespeare responsibly!
Sh!t-faced Shakespeare is the hilarious blend of an entirely serious Shakespeare play with an entirely sh!t-faced actor. What could possibly go right? With a genuinely inebriated cast member each night, no two shows are ever the same in this raucous, riotous rampage through one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, the story of a privileged whiny lad who goes a bit bonkers and does some stabbings, Hamlet.
Warning, this show includes a genuinely drunk performer and anything could happen. This show may contain drinking, swearing, nudity, simulated acts of a sexual nature, terrible singing, actual acts of a sexual nature and, quite possibly – some actual Shakespeare.
'The most fun I've ever had at the Festival. I left with tears streaming down my face and a sore belly from laughing far far too hysterically hard.' ★★★★★ Collage Adelaide
'No-holds-barred ecstasy.' ★★★★★ Broadway Baby (UK)
'Hilarious.' ★★★★★ Adelaide Advertiser
'A hilarious, laugh-a-minute riot.' ★★★★ The Clothesline
Suitable for audiences 15+
Audience participation
Language – occasional coarse language
References to or simulation of violence
References to self-harm and suicide
Sudden loud noises
Before and after the show
Eat, drink, laugh. Repeat.
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