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Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we would give him a hand…Using his language, your audience suggestions, and our overactive imaginations, we create a brand-new Shakespeare play live on stage, complete with live music, songs and plenty of laughs.
Join ShakeItUp for an evening of Bard-Based Bedlam!
Shakespeare hasn’t written anything new for an age, so we thought we would give him a hand…Using his language, your audience suggestions, and our overactive imaginations, ShakeItUp create a brand-new Shakespeare play live on stage, complete with live music, songs, and plenty of laughs.
Pick your authentic Shakespearean genre: Epic History, Romantic Comedy, or Gruesome Tragedy; choose the location of where we will lay our scene, our hero’s name, and even their day-job! Pen your wittiest Shakespearean line for our brave actors to pull from their suitably-Shakespearean breeches when they need a helping hand – the twist? They’ll have no idea what the line will be before they say it!
Then sit back and watch the hilarity unfold in a totally authentic (and totally bonkers) play that Willy Shakes himself would be proud of. Expect big laughs, high drama, and a healthy dose of rhyming couplets.
FIVE STARS – “Quick witted, inexhaustible and absolutely hysterical.”
London Theatre Reviews
FOUR STARS – “Laugh out-loud hilarious […] a great night out”
Broadway World
FOUR STARS – “An authentic, if strange, work of Shakespeare”
Upper Circle
“Alas I wishe I had written this myselffe”
Christopher Marlowe
ShakeItUp Theatre first emerged onto the scene in 2018 with “The Improvised Shakespeare Show”. They have since performed their flagship show at theatres and festivals across the UK and internationally. When they are not out on the road, ShakeItUp are a resident company at The Hen and Chickens Theatre in Islington, north London, where they perform every month.
For tickets and more information, please visit our new Town Gardens website:
https://towngardens-swindon.co.uk/event/shakeitup-the-improvised-shakespeare-show/
Doors open at 6pm, performance starts at 7pm.
Please note: The Town Gardens Bowl is a card only venue.