Evita Our work is informed by our trained disciplines of music, performance art and long-form improvisation. We consider performing the ‘sh!t’ to be theatrically political. Our embracing of the ‘sh!t’ challenges preconceptions that, in life, only virtuosity needs a voice. We work with a D.I.Y aesthetic which comprises of found materials; the intentionally D.I.Y appearance and donning of grotesque clown make-up challenges us and the audience to find the common ground beyond the alienating exterior. Our work is political and personal, using comedy, music, multimedia, audience interaction and live documentary practice.
Our work celebrates ‘live-ness’ – lines are learnt and then un-learnt, sections are left to be devised on stage, pieces re-written in response to the specific audience. We love improvisation, cracks in the facepaint, failure and being SH!T.
We were winners of the Total Theatre Award 2013 for emerging artist/ company and an Arches Brick Award 2013, and were shortlisted for the 2014 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. Our Edinburgh Fringe 2015 show won a Three Weeks Editors Choice Award and was listed as one of the Daily Telegraph's 'Five Best Plays to see in Edinburgh'. Our Edinburgh 2016 show Letters to Windsor House won a Scotsman Fringe First and was shortlisted for the Total Theatre Award for 'innovation and experimentation in form' 2016 and the Carol Tambor Prize. DollyWould was awarded the Brighton Fringe Touring Award 2018 in association with the Pebble Trust, was a Guardian 'top 10 shows to see at the Edinburgh Fringe' & one of the Evening Standard's '20 shows to see in 2018' and was nominated for an Off West End 'TBC' Award in 2019 for 'uncategorisable work'. She Bangs the Drums - which we created with Contact Young Company - was nominated for 'best performance' at the Manchester Culture Awards & was also shortlisted for 'Theatre Production of the Year' at the Northern Soul Awards 2018. Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats won a Fringe First, a Lustrum Award and the Holden Street Theatre Edinburgh Award. At Adelaide Fringe, it won the Week 1 Critics Circle Award as well as the overall Critics Circle Award, the overall Best Theatre Award and the Sunday Mail Best Theatre Award. Evita Too won the 2023 OFFIE for IDEA Best Performance.
We are Associate Artists of Camden People's Theatre & The Bush Theatre
Sh!t shows: Sh!t Theatre present: Sh!t Theatre's (genuine) Performance Democracy; JSA (Job Seekers Anonymous) 2013; Guinea Pigs on Trial; Women's Hour; Letters to Windsor House; DollyWould; No Refunds; Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats; Sh!t Actually; Evita Too
Our work celebrates ‘live-ness’ – lines are learnt and then un-learnt, sections are left to be devised on stage, pieces re-written in response to the specific audience. We love improvisation, cracks in the facepaint, failure and being SH!T.
We were winners of the Total Theatre Award 2013 for emerging artist/ company and an Arches Brick Award 2013, and were shortlisted for the 2014 Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. Our Edinburgh Fringe 2015 show won a Three Weeks Editors Choice Award and was listed as one of the Daily Telegraph's 'Five Best Plays to see in Edinburgh'. Our Edinburgh 2016 show Letters to Windsor House won a Scotsman Fringe First and was shortlisted for the Total Theatre Award for 'innovation and experimentation in form' 2016 and the Carol Tambor Prize. DollyWould was awarded the Brighton Fringe Touring Award 2018 in association with the Pebble Trust, was a Guardian 'top 10 shows to see at the Edinburgh Fringe' & one of the Evening Standard's '20 shows to see in 2018' and was nominated for an Off West End 'TBC' Award in 2019 for 'uncategorisable work'. She Bangs the Drums - which we created with Contact Young Company - was nominated for 'best performance' at the Manchester Culture Awards & was also shortlisted for 'Theatre Production of the Year' at the Northern Soul Awards 2018. Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats won a Fringe First, a Lustrum Award and the Holden Street Theatre Edinburgh Award. At Adelaide Fringe, it won the Week 1 Critics Circle Award as well as the overall Critics Circle Award, the overall Best Theatre Award and the Sunday Mail Best Theatre Award. Evita Too won the 2023 OFFIE for IDEA Best Performance.
We are Associate Artists of Camden People's Theatre & The Bush Theatre
Sh!t shows: Sh!t Theatre present: Sh!t Theatre's (genuine) Performance Democracy; JSA (Job Seekers Anonymous) 2013; Guinea Pigs on Trial; Women's Hour; Letters to Windsor House; DollyWould; No Refunds; Sh!t Theatre Drink Rum With Expats; Sh!t Actually; Evita Too