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Every night's a bullfight

John Gardner

It is the opening night of the Shireston Festival Company's new season. A season which began for Douglas Silver way back in the summer when the trustees responsible for the Festival appointed him Director with a free hand and a generous budget. This was also when he met and seduced the beautiful Carol Evans, a very talented actress... Convinced that the Shakespearian dramas mirror the problems that beset modern society, Douglas feels sure that by presenting Shakespeare in a radically new light he will rescue Shireston from the obscurity into which it has gradually sunk over the years. Slowly he recruits his ideal actors to put on a unique and stunning set of Shakespearean shows with the leery night club entertainer Joe Thomas in the role of Othello and a casting the Capulets as a black family. Hoping to continue his love affair, he casts Carol as Juliet but each actor...

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