Wabash, 77,, $59, $500 for “King” Experience” (includes champagne and cocktails), 21+.One actor has five shots of whiskey and then attempts to perform in a Shakespeare play. One suspects that they’re honoring the Elizabethan tradition, after all. Hilarity and mayhem ensue while the four sober actors. Together, this cast embodies a new kind of “triple threat”-they can make Shakespeare’s dialogue sing, they can ad-lib through the most ridiculous situations, and they can hold their liquor. Drunk Shakespeare brings together a troupe of skilled Shakespearean actors, has one of them consume at least five shots of whiskey and then puts them to work. One drinks at least 5 shots of whiskey and then attempts to perform a major role in a Shakespearean play. (Kudos to the bar staff who also kept libations coming for patrons throughout.) You have to be pretty damn smart to make something that sounds this stupid on paper feel exhilarating rather than exhausting. In the tiny speakeasy-library setting of the Lion Theatre (a storefront space located behind the Chicago Theatre), the cast of Drunk Shakespeare moved with adroit wit and physicality throughout the audience seated on benches on either side of the playing area. Drunk Shakespeare started in 2019 with an inspired production of A Midsummer Nights Dream, providing SLC theatergoers with a fresh and modern approach to.
Hilarity and mayhem ensues while the four sober actors.
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It takes performers with a sure knowledge of the original story and a firm handle on timing (both in terms of iambics and improv) to not fall off the narrative wagon with a show like this. One professional actor downs 5 shots of whiskey and then attempts to performin a Shakespearean play. Theater geeks and wine oclock lovers can share. (The king at my performance stole the show with a proposal-accepted!-post-curtain call.) Already a phenomenon in New York City and Chicago, Drunk Shakespeare makes its debut in Washington, D.C. The other official disrupters are the guests willing to fork over $500 (yikes!) for the special “King” (or “Queen”) package, which gets you a throne, expensive hooch (including a bottle of champagne one performer described as tasting “like what I imagine my mother’s approval feels like”), and the right to interrupt the proceedings and decide if you will “pardon” the night’s drinker or add to their hangover by commanding them to down another shot. Every night in The Gallery, a hidden Victorian drawing room on the 4th floor of an NYC hotel, five classically-trained actors meet as members of The Drunk. The upside to being the designated drunk is that you get to toss monkey wrenches into the performance works from time to time. Thomas Toles as the host kept the proceedings on track while entering scenes in a variety of film genres (action movie, film noir), as commanded by Green. Brooks as Macbeth served up double and triple shots of sexual entendres while bringing in references to everything from Barack and Michelle Obama to The Lion King. Creators Scott Griffin and David Hudson announced complete casting today for the Chicago production of the smashed hit Off-Broadway comedy Drunk Shakespeare. The hit theatrical comedy in the heart of Broadway where one classically.
On the night I attended, Courtney Rikki Green tackled Lady M with verve, bringing an astounding amount of emotional nuance to the sleepwalking scene, despite the five shots of whiskey she downed before the 90-minute show (enough to make anyone see Birnam Wood moving-though here the forest is represented by the ensemble waving Little Trees air fresheners). The Lounge at Roy Arias Stages, 711 Seventh Ave., 2nd Fl. But concerns about liver damage aside, the recently opened Chicago version of this show (created by Scott Griffin and director David Hudson) that’s now in its fifth year in New York brings together a murderers’ row of comedic talent to what is essentially Comedy Central’s Drunk History with a literary twist-served on the rocks, straight up, and with many disgusting variations in between. The moral implications of Drunk Shakespeare, in which a performer gets deliberately plastered before attempting a major role in Macbeth, may feel a bit troubling. View Drunk Shakespeare (location in New York, United States, revenue, industry and description.
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