The Shitheads

Thursday 26th February 2026

Jacoba Williams, Peter Clements and Annabel Smith in The Shitheads
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Favourite stage direction: “All of the characters are early human beings. No attempt should be made to make the two different groups the characters belong to physically distinct, and it is not necessary they look historically accurate.” (Jack Nicholls’s The Shitheads)

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