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The hilarious niche of English comedic writing has a fresh contender. At the heart of this riotous laugh-a-paragraph farce that will joy participants of amateur dramatic societies everywhere lies a forgotten village in a distant valley where in fact the "real valley folk" live, including Cuthbert, the village undertaker, impresario of the shambolic total annual theater creation, and holy fool; Margery, the neighborhood beauty and mother of the Mafia twins whose continuous creative disruption provides a reliable way to obtain threat and misadventure; the private milkman whose flashing teeth can fell a woman at 50 paces; Percy, the gardener whose still waters run curiously if not necessarily deep; and the regulars at the Mandrake Forearms who drink to keep in mind and drink to forget as plots and strategies flourish in their midst. Suddenly into this by-water of rural oblivion bursts a group of newcomers who've taken up property at the seigneurial Mandrake Hall: Henry, a dominant advertising reporter, and his little girl, who's more horse than her horse; Henry's sibling, Ronald, an adventurer, a mercenary, and a sometime crook; and the unreconstituted Captain and his much-put-upon wife, Elspeth. What are these rank and improbable outsiders doing in these obscure parts, and what exactly are they looking for as they vigorously comb the village and the considerable network of tunnels built beneath it? One idea is the continual story that the bard himself, William Shakespeare, was once utilized as a tutor up at the hall (thus the total annual village play), and there might still be fragments of his early on work--a fumbling, politically inappropriate piece--waiting to be discovered. Fame and lot of money may follow, but corpses will be dug up first.
