Clavering
Players
A Bunch of Amateurs
Sun, 12 May
|Hill Green
Parental Advisory - Not suitable for under 16's, contains sexual reference & explicit language
Time & Location
12 May 2024, 14:30 – 17:00
Hill Green, Hill Green, Saffron Walden CB11 4QS, UK
About the event
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!