Created by a bunch of mates in 2015, Sh!t-faced Showtime takes well-known tales and creates unique scripts with a musical playlist. A boozy improv musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ basic Christmas story returns to Leicester Square Theatre for a triumphantly tipsy fourth 12 months. Featuring a West End solid {of professional} actors with a single, genuinely inebriated solid member thrown into the combination, audiences are invited to drag up a stool, loosen up and watch the festive chaos unfold.
This rendition of Charles Dickens’ basic story is carried out with expert improvisation, dance and iconic track performances by 5 performers drawn from a big rolling solid, lots of whom play completely different roles on completely different nights. Our examine for the night helps to maintain issues on observe, steering the solid again in the best route if the drunk solid mate goes too far off script. After all, there’s a story to be instructed, and in below two hours, somebody has to keep watch over the clock. Members of the viewers are given the ability to cease the present at any time in the event that they really feel the drunk performer is beginning to sober up and one other drink is given to them.
A Pissedmas Carol actually is a special present each single evening and this tight-knit solid handle to ad-lib their manner via the story, taking the lead from the inebriated individual. It’s a number of enjoyable and excellent for a festive, enjoyable evening out.
Reviewed by West End Wilma