But when Brigitte Freeme drank five shots of tequila and a glass of prosecco on stage on a recent Sunday afternoon in Brisbane, she was simply following stage directions.
Freeme and Stephen Hirst star in this broadly comic adaptation of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel.Off-Broadway’s Drunk Shakespeare has been combining booze and the Bard since 2014, and Britain’s venerable Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare toured Australia with a sloshed“It brings an element of theatrical excitement and risk, because something could change in the moment,” said producer Alex Woodward.
One actor, Stephen Hirst, plays both Mr Darcy and three of the Bennet sisters, which guarantees laughs whether Hirst is intoxicated or not.
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