Facsimile Productions

Filmmaker Nigel Doylerush has just completed a mini documentary on British Touring Shakespeare’s Guerilla Romeo and Juliet show at the Roundhouse which took place in February. Please press the ‘Guerilla Shakespeare’ link above to watch the film.

We have an exciting opportunity for schoolchildren to perform in a major forthcoming Shakespeare event. If you are a London based English or Drama teacher and would like to learn more then please get in touch for details.

We are delighted to announce our next Guerilla Shakespeare production will be Romeo and Juliet at the Roundhouse at Sunday 19th February. Please see our Guerilla Shakespeare page for details on how to come and watch or be a part of this special one off completely unrehearsed performance.

We are delighted to announce our second BTS Guerilla Shakespeare evening which will be a production of Twelfth Night taking place on the twelfth night of Christmas. For more details and information on how you can be a part of this special one off show please visit our ‘Guerilla Shakespeare’ page from the link above.

As we head into Autumn and the cold weather starts to bite, we’re delighted to be able to announce a bit of good news for the performers out there amongst you. British Touring Shakespeare are currently looking for actors to take part in the launch of our pioneering new Guerilla Shakespeare initiative, and we hope to be able to offer everyone who gets in touch a role! If you fancy being involved in a completely unrehearsed performance of King Lear in the West End on Saturday 26th November then press ‘Guerilla Shakespeare’ above and get in touch – we look forward to hearing from you.

The trailer for our forthcoming horror production The Woods Are Lovely is now online just in time for Halloween! Please click ‘The Woods Are Lovely’ above to watch it and if you like what you see then head to ‘Book Tickets’ to come and see the show.

British Touring Shakespeare are very excited to announce the launch of a pioneering new classical performance initiative. Guerilla Shakespeare will be a regular event in which we cast a Shakespeare play, give the actors the script to learn their lines and then just let them turn up and perform the show with no rehearsal, direction or prior contact with the rest of the cast. It may create some powerful and sponataneous moments of performance or it might just be a bit of a mess! We’re hoping for the former but we know it’s going to be an unmissable spectacle either way.

To launch this groundbreaking new method of bringing the Bard’s work to life, we’ve decided to set ourselves as big a challenge as possible, so on Saturday 26th November we will be giving a guerilla performance of heavyweight tragedy King Lear at a major new venue in London’s West End.

Stay tuned for more details very soon as well as information on how you can be involved in the show.

We are delighted to announce the cast for our forthcoming world premiere production of ‘The Woods Are Lovely’ by Stephen Middleton which is playing at the London Horror Festival from Tuesday 8th to Sunday 20th November at the Courtyard Theatre Hoxton.

Beric Livingstone as George
Lucyelle Cliffe as Marie
and Kevin Millington as Nathan

Directed by Andrew Hobbs

Rehearsals have just got off to a great start this week and tickets are now available from our ‘Book Tickets’ page – we hope to see you there!

We are delighted to announce the superbly talented cast that will be performing in British Touring Shakespeare’s production of Dr Faustus at the White Bear.

Robert Paul as Faustus
Edward Pemberton as Mephistopheles
Edward Cartwright as Wagner
Anton Shelupanov as Lucifer
S P Howarth as Beelzebub
Hugh Hemmings as the Pope
Simon J Grant as Robin the Clown
Emma Burn as Dick the Stable Boy
Alistair Smith as the Vintner
with Hannah-Ray Darcey, Jessica Hill and Stephanie Porter as the demonic dancers
and Lucyelle Cliffe as the voice of the Angel

Directed by Andrew Hobbs
Lighting by Catherine Webb
Choregoraphy by Lucyelle Cliffe
Costume by Mary Hearne
Featuring video content by Nigel Doylerush
and dialogue recorded by Beric Livingstone

This dark, edgy and modern take on Christopher Marlowe’s classic opens on Tuesday 27th September and combines multimedia elements, rock music and dancing girls to create an entertaining, accessible and shocking tale of devilish damnation that is not to be missed.

Tickets for the one week run are on sale now and are already selling fast so book now to avoid disappointment. Please visit our Book Tickets page for further details.

Tickets are now on sale for both of our Autumn productions. Firstly, British Touring Shakespeare’s dark and modern take on Christopher Marlowe’s Dr Faustus opens at the White Bear on Tuesday 27th September, and then Facsimile will be staging the world premiere of The Woods Are Lovely by Stephen Middleton at the London Horror Festival from Tuesday 8th November. Please see our Book Tickets page for further details and booking information.