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Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure, to become artistic director after the sudden death of his mentor, Oliver Welles. When he arrives he finds that Oliver is still there, in spirit anyway, and with his guidance (and often in spite of it) Geoffrey attempts to reconcile with his past while wrestling the Festival back from the marketing department. Despite a bitter leading lady, a clueless leading man, a serendipitous apprentice, and a scheming general manager, he manages to stage a remarkably personal production of Hamlet, the play that drove him mad years earlier.
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