It’s 1598 and Will Shakespeare needs a new theatre.

Stuck in Shoreditch at the ageing Curtain Theatre, out on a limb, but south of the river business is booming.

Outside of the harsh jurisdiction of the city, Southwarke is full of bear-baiting, cock-fighting, taverns and brothels. Here audiences are cramming into the best theatres England has ever seen; The popular Rose Theatre, and the resplendent new Swan Theatre, both making plays, pennies and pounds a plenty.

Against this backdrop we witness an audacious plan with the highest of stakes, all whilst Shakespeare is writing his new play, a little history piece called Henry V…

“An epic and riotous night, with hilarity and jubilation in sixteenth-century abundance” - Choice Radio

Mike has just been left at the altar.

Forty, fat and jilted, you could say his life is pretty rubbish. With his girlfriend gone and a hole where the wedding once was, he desperately needs fo find a new sense of purpose.

So when he sees a drinks can littering a country lane and gives it a good kick, how could he possibly imagine where it would end up..?

Every problem has it’s cause. Every cause has it’s champion…

Why be nervous? It’s only the rest of your life.

Saying ‘I do’ is easy, but finding that special someone to ask ‘Will you?’, that’s an entirely different proposal.

It’s a big step, and it’s perfectly natural to be nervous, especially when it’s the second time around and the first ended in disaster.

A groom with a past, a best man losing his best mate, and a father of the bride with just a little too much pride. It’s fair to say they all have jitters.

Four pieces of new writing created to be greatly entertaining, but also designed to be feasibly produced by any up-and-coming theatre company.

Resting - Four out of work actors with a life to contemplate.

Recovering - From a hangover? A career choice? An operation? Or from a lifelong lie…

Jitters - Marriage. Why be nervous? It’s only the rest of your life?

iBard - A quest to find the real William Shakespeare, and bring him into the digital age.