A BUNCH OF AMATEURS - Frome Drama Club. 25, 26, 27 April
Merlin Theatre
Theatre
25th Apr 2024 - 27th Apr 2024
Sunday 28th April
Frome Drama presents A BUNCH OF AMATEURS by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman
Keen to boost his flagging career, fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steele arrives in England to play King Lear in Stratford only to find that this is not the birthplace of the Bard but a sleepy Suffolk village – and instead of Kenneth Branagh and Dame Judi Dench the cast are a bunch of amateurs trying to save the theatre from developers. Jefferson's monstrous ego, vanity and insecurity are tested to the limit by the enthusiastic am-dram thespians. As acting worlds collide and Jefferson's career implodes, he discovers some truths about himself along with his inner Lear.
This terrific comedy, written by Ian Hislop (Have I Got News For You) and Nick Newman (Spitting Image) is "packed with killer comic dialogue" (Whatsonstage) and is "deliciously stuffed with Shakespeare…a laugh a minute" (Mail on Sunday).
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