Fading Hollywood star Jefferson Steel comes to England to play King Lear in a Royal Shakespeare Company production at Stratford.  It is only when he arrives that he finds his agent has actually booked him to appear with the Stratford Players, a small amateur group based in Stratford St. John in Suffolk.  As the play unfolds we see how Dorothy, the Director and moving force behind the company, and the its other members cope, or don't, with this misunderstanding to great comedic effect.  They are also joined by Jefferson's teenage daughter; she has been neglected by her father and now wants to make him pay for it.