The Illustrious Theatre Company

The White Bear kicks off its Christmas season with a darkly comic play about lost love, alcoholism and stage fright.

Yes, they’re all out there; the theatre community royalty. The finest collection of personality disorders this side of a Freudian nightmare.

Stanley, once a respected classical actor, is now relegated to appearing in murder mysteries on seaside piers. Found by a former lover who persuades him to appear as Gloucester in her production of King Lear, he is catapulted into the company of his estranged TV star friend who is playing the king himself.