There’s a fair amount of impaired performing going around — “Drunk History,” for instance, a television show on Comedy Central, and “Before the Morning After,” on the new Seeso streaming service. What sets “Drunk Shakespeare” apart is that alcohol isn’t the main character. It’s more like an enabler, allowing the actors (sober and drunk) to take all sorts of liberties with Shakespeare, but skillfully. Even Ms. Morris was always more or less in control as the cast raced through an abbreviated version of “Macbeth,” liberally mashed up with pop-culture and current-events references. Here’s how liberally: At one point, the standard version gave way to a scene between Sarah Palin and Rowlf the Muppet dog.

The show’s alcoholic content also gives a certain license to the onlookers, who become participants in the festivities. Two audience members in particular are involved, having paid extra for the privilege of sitting on thrones, where they are given champagne, caviar and the right to order the designated drinker to drink even more shots.

It offers considerably more fun than many Shakespeare productions, worth experiencing not to watch an actor get drunk, but to watch a cast juggle so many balls so adroitly. It’s not as improvised and spontaneous as the company would have you believe. In its outlandish way, it’s as carefully thought out and executed as any real “Macbeth.”