Too Many greek myths
Living Spit
When two members of Clevedon-based comedy theatre company, Living Spit, are overheard bragging about how good they are, Zeus, enraged by their hubris, decides to teach them a lesson. His punishment? A Herculean challenge: to squeeze twenty of the greatest Ancient Greek myths into one chaotic, side-splitting show!
Join Living Spit as they tackle everything from Hades to Heracles, Midas to Medusa, with their trademark blend of harebrained humour, questionable wigs and a total disregard for historical accuracy. Can they conquer the labyrinth of legends before time runs out? Or will the gods have the last laugh?
Prepare for a mythological marathon - Living Spit style!
Warning: May contain togas, ridiculous puns and possibly an overworked Trojan Horse.
Age guidance: 8+ Written by Stu McLoughlin
Directed by Craig Edwards
St John's Church Hall
Hillside Road, Clevedon
4th July 2026
7.30pm £15
‘Like silly King Midas, everything Living Spit touches turns into gold’
★★★★★ StageTalk Magazine
The Tragedy of
OmletPrince of henmark
Living Spit
By Stu McLoughlin (and William Shakespeare)
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“O, that this too too solid shell would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew…”
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The question of suitability to play the Moody Dane has preoccupied theatre makers for centuries. Scholars have long debated age, physique, gender and temperament - yet all have overlooked the perfect candidate:
an egg.
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Enter Omlet, Prince of Hen-mark; Hamlet rehatched; fragile, brooding, on the brink of cracking under the pressure of his own Egg-sistential angst and joined by a full supporting cast of vegetables and assorted foodstuffs - fresh from the fridge and prepared to present Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy as you’ve never seen it before; retold by one man, one egg and a trolley full of comestibles.
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But this is no ordinary one man show. With live original music, perishable puppetry, and an overly confident reliance on bad puns, actor Stu Mcloughlin juggles an entire allotment of Shakespearean tragedy whilst trying not to turn his leading man into a leading flan.
Omlet, Prince of Hen-mark is a sumptuous scramble of skillful soliloquising, small-scale suspense and sunny-side-up Shakespearean silliness. A cracking night out, which proves once and for all that…
…something is rotten in the state of Hen-mark. Age guide: 12+