Returning to Leicester Square Theatre for a triumphantly tipsy fourth year, festive hit – A Pissedmas Carol – combines cast members from Sh!t-faced Showtime and Sh!t-faced Shakespeare for an all-singing, tipple-slinging, merriment-bringing truly alternative Christmas knees-up you won’t have seen before. We sat down with James Murfitt, producer, cast member and co-adaptor of A Pissedmas Carol to get some details.
Can you sum up A Pissedmas Carol in five words?
Chaotic. Drunken. Daft. Educational. Not!
What makes your version of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol different from the rest?
We present an entirely serious production of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, but one of the characters is played by an actor who has been drinking for four hours prior to the show… You will genuinely never see A Christmas Carol production like this one.
What’s your favourite pre-show tipple for when you’re THAT chosen cast member?
I love gin and a nice bottle of Malbec!
What’s been your best ever improvised moment in the show?
I was drunk as Scrooge in the show one evening and, after having commented on Tiny Tim’s rather large endowment, rhymed the word ‘Rickets’ with ‘Big Dickets.’ If only I could come up with such improvisational gold sober…
Tell us why audiences should book in immediately!
You will never see a version of A Christmas Carol like this one. Book for one night, two nights or the whole run, because no one show is ever the same, as every night an actor is genuinely inebriated. Don’t say we’re not treating you this Christmas!