- Playwrights – Ian Hislop & Nick Newman
- Location – Harrogate Studio Theatre
- Director – Gill McVey
Cast
- Jefferson Steele – Stuart Newsome
- Dorothy – Janet Wilson
- Mary – Helen Mitchell
- Nigel – David Williams
- Denis – Richard Naylor
- Jessica – Natasha Mcvey
- Lauren – Anna Garlick
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 their 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.