Shakespeare in Love
Thu 14 Mar
|Regal Theatre
Presented by Barnstormers
Time & Location
14 Mar 2024, 19:30 – 16 Mar 2024, 19:30
Regal Theatre, 10-16 The Avenue, Minehead TA24 5AY, UK
About the event
Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard, adapted for the stage by Lee Hall
Performance on Thursday 14th March 2024 7.30 pm, Friday 15th March 2024 7.30 pm and Saturday 16th March 2024 7.30 pm
Penniless and indebted to two demanding producers, struggling young playwright William Shakespeare is tormented by writer’s block until he meets the beautiful Viola de Lesseps, daughter of a wealthy merchant, whose fiery passion for poetry and drama leaves her secretly longing to be an actor. Both are despondent when they learn that Viola’s father has promised her to the stuffy Lord Wessex in order to gain a title for their family. Under the veil of secrecy, Will and Viola’s passionate love affair becomes the basis of the very play he is writing – ‘Romeo and Juliet’. With opening night – and the wedding day – fast approaching, the plots race toward a…