A Mad World My Masters - on tour now

23 February 2015, 14:22 | Updated: 15 December 2016, 11:50

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s smash hit 'A Mad World My Masters' combines sultry jazz music and glamorous 1950s costumes in a hilarious and entertaining production.

Travel back to the 1950s and step into the smoky world of Soho’s Flamingo jazz club in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s uproarious Jacobean romp, A Mad World My Masters. 

A dashing bachelor in search of quick cash and good times has to live on his wits in a world where glamour rubs shoulders with filth – and likes it. A Mad World My Masters is a comic and visual feast which bursts with live music and jokes galore. 

Director Sean Foley’s edited version of Thomas Middleton’s hilarious and filthy Jacobean comedy has been transported to Soho in the 1950s and includes riotously funny characters such as Mrs. Littledick, Sir Bounteous Peersucker, Truly Kidman and a doddery old butler named Spunky.

Hailed by the Daily Telegraph as a ‘Disgracefully entertaining evening’ - don’t miss this hilarious show on national tour this spring.
   

***** "Riotously funny" - Daily Mail

**** "Wonderful fun" - Sunday Times

**** "Deliriously funny" - Independent

Following its 2013 hit run at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, A Mad World My Masters is now on tour across the UK and will conclude its run with a strictly limited season at London’s Barbican in May 2015.

See A Mad World My Masters at:

26 Feb - 28 Feb 2015 Wolverhampton Grand Theatre
5 Mar - 7 Mar 2015 Grand Theatre Blackpool
10 Mar - 14 Mar 2015 Theatre Royal Brighton
24 Mar - 28 Mar 2015 Malvern Theatres
31 Mar - 4 Apr 2015 Hall for Cornwall, Truro
7 Apr - 11 Apr 2015 Theatre Royal, Bath
14 Apr - 18 Apr 2015 Darlington Civic Theatre
21 Apr - 25 Apr 2015 Cambridge Arts Theatre
29 Apr - 9 May 2015 Barbican, London

Get more information and book tickets at the English Touring Theatre website.