Redbridge Stage Company

Lettice Douffet, an expert on Elizabethan cuisine and Shaespeare, is an indefatigable enthusiast of history and the theatre. She is a tour guide at Fustian House one of the least stately and least interesting of Britain's stately homes. Lettice begins to embellish its historical past and her lecture gains theatricality and romance as it strays from the facts. Lotte Schoen, an inspector from the Preservation Trust, is not impressed or entertained by these uninhibited history lessons. However, Lotte gradually becomes fascinated by Lettice’s unusual past, her romantic world view and her refusal to accept the mediocre and the second rate. So the two women forge an unlikely alliance.