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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 the cast are a bunch of amateurs. Jefferson's monstrous ego, vanity and insecurity are tested by the enthusiastic amateur thespians - who are not averse to a spot of ego, vanity and insecurity themselves. As acting worlds collide and Jefferson's career implodes, he discovers some truths about himself and his relationships with other people... along with his inner Lear!

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Author(s): Ian Hislop, Nick Newman (from an original story by Jonathan Gershfield and John Ross)

UKTW Historical Archive

A Bunch of Amateurs archive with 52 listings from Thursday, 22nd May 2014 to Saturday, 12th October 2024.