THERE will be plenty of hilarity when A Bunch of Amateurs – by Nick Newman and Ian Hislop – is performed at Droitwich’s Norbury Theatre.
The show centres on fading Hollywood action hero Jefferson Steel who arrives in England to play King Lear in Stratford in a bid to boost his flagging career.
But he finds the is not in the birthplace of the Bard – he is in a sleepy Suffolk village.
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.
Performances take place at 7.30pm on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, March 31 and April 1 and 2 and on April 7, 8 and 9.
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