Out-of-work actor Joe Harper (Michael Maloney), who on the verge of a nervous breakdown, decides to put on a production of Hamlet in a church, at Christmas. Despite admonitions from his agent Margaretta D'Arcy (Dame Joan Collins) and sister about the career suicide he's about to commit by investing in such a morbid play over the holidays, he pushes on to realize his goal. Faced with a series of challenges and cast of misfits and oddballs, the troupe crawl towards opening night, discovering love, laughter, and friends along the way.
—J. Lake