Imagine Aristotle wanted to be a librarian or Leonardo DiCaprio wanted to be a waiter.
And imagine the greatest playwright in the history of humankind actually wanted to be a property mogul.
Billy Shakespeare is an adult animated comedy show about genius, ambition and having the wrong dream.
Billy Shakespeare is an original half-hour animated comedy show created by Anna Danshina.
It’s Blackadder meets South Park — a filthy, tender, laugh-out-loud comedy about history's greatest writer desperately trying to avoid writing.
It’s Shakespeare as a failed entrepreneur, advised by a flea, haunted by his dad, and thwarted by a lonely queen.
Timeless themes, anarchic humour, and a premise so wrong it's completely irresistible.
Premise
William Shakespeare, mid-thirties, is the most celebrated playwright in London — and he couldn’t care less. His real dream is to become Shoreditch’s greatest property mogul. Advised by a flea called Fleago, his tiny scheming lawyer, and accompanied by donkey-headed actor Othello and sweet toddler Quilliam, Billy schemes to buy a plague cemetery and build Dead Souls Inn.
Queen Elizabeth — his biggest fan and most powerful obstacle — keeps him culturally enslaved while secretly longing for connection. When the Black Death fills his would-be building plot with bodies, Billy loses everything.
So he does the only thing left: he writes Antony and Cleopatra in thirty seconds flat.
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BILLY SHAKESPEARE
Adult animated comedy set in Elizabethan England, about a man who wanted to build a property empire but found that he was quite good at writing plays.
8 × 22 mins
Created by Anna Danshina
PALAD Entertainment