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First ever full-length Sh!t Theatre show in London, one night only, and  featuring the legendary Lois Weaver as Tammy Whynot? , confirmed for SUNDAY 6TH NOVEMBER @ 7PM, at the Pinter Studio at QMUL , London E1. Tickets will be first come first served, on the door, £4 and £3 concessions for students, staff and general hobos, which pretty much covers everyone we know.

This IS Sh!t Theatre Teaser - David Nutt

Here's a little teaser vid for 'This IS Sh!t Theatre', which Helen put together after Monday night. Enjoy Deb's face as our microphone stand! I think she is actually wincing. And, no, I don't know how to make the little video box thing small enough to fit in the little blog box thing, but it's charming, isn't it? Like rustic blogging. We're the farmer's market of blogspot. Charming!!!

We're in the recording studio this weekend - Duckie gave us the go-ahead on a Sh!t Theatre backing track for the Xmas promo films we wrote for their Barbican show (http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?ID=12502), so we're busy with that and getting ready for our Resonance FM show on Tuesday. Don't forget, audience numbers are v limited so let us know if you are practising your radio laughs, try phoning Louise and laughing down the phone, she'll love that, especially late at night or very early in the morning.

xxx

PS. 15/10, Occupy!

David 'The Nutty Professor' Nutt Approves of Sh!t Theatre

He does! Despite our 'David Nutt's a Nazi!' line, lovely ex-expert Professor David Nutt seemed to thoroughly enjoy Sh!t Theatre on Drugs last night, and even agreed to a little interview for what was the first night of filming for Press Play's 'This IS Sh!t Theatre'. The rest of the evening had great performances from Chris Coltrane and the Commie Faggots, and many excellent speakers on the issues of drug consumption and production. Conclusion: everyone loves drugs! Bunch of damn hippies.

We'll get back to finishing off *start writing* our radio show for Resonance FM next Tuesday, for now, here's a nice review of our Edinburgh show from theatre blog The Cheap Seats http://thecheap-seats.blogspot.com/

SUNDAY, 21 AUGUST 2011

Sh!t Theatre: Anything but

In the basement of a random pub, hardly even listed we struck gold with the comedy duo Sh!t Theatre and their show "Sh!t Theatre present: More Sh!t". A female comedy duo with backgrounds in performance art, improv and music, their politically provocative sketches and songs had our varied audience all in stitches.

Accompanied by a guitar and ukelele, the premise of their show is that they wrote themselves a 5 star review and worked backwards from it with a checklist, ticking as they went. This was punctuated with "commercial breaks" where they managed to mock everything from vegetarianism, with their rendition of Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" entitiled "Meat-free Dress", to Loreal. The "Sh!t" aesthetic to which they continually referred was achieved through their costumes being constructed from newspaper which inevitably also reinforced their focus on current affairs.

This subtlety was characteristic of the whole show. The Lord's Prayer to Rupert Murdoch (which can now be seen on their facebook page) reeks of irony, something many comics have not been able to achieve surrounding the phone hacking scandals, preferring instead to take a more aggressive approach.

They struck a great balance between continuity and variety, the through threads of the commercial breaks and checklist allowing them explore a number of different issues and tangents jumping between them without losing their audience challenging and commenting on everything from Burkahs to the Catholic stance on contraception.

The pair push boundaries without relying on vulgarity or shock tactics unlike so many of the shows we see today. Frankly speaking, Sh!t Theatre shat all over their competition and were my comedic highlight of the Fringe.

Sh!t Theatre are on Drugs

Just a quick post to say we'll be back at the latest Mutiny event 'Drugs on Trial' this Monday 10th at the Resistance Gallery, Bethnal Green with a Sh!t Theatre exclusive! http://london.indymedia.org/events/10255. Looks set to be a really interesting night, with some great speakers including David 'The Nutty Professor' Nutt of getting-fired-for-being-right fame, and music from Sh!t Theatre faves, the Commie Faggots.


We had a great meeting with Helen last week about 'This IS Sh!t Theatre'; the film is really starting to take shape and hopefully interviews start next week. She and David sent off their...bits..to the..company..elves?..and now Press Play Films Ltd are an official 'Official' (official)company! Congratulations! Check out their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Press-Play-Films-Ltd/157206111035491

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