The Church of Shakespeare

Bartholomew “Bix” Baxter, actor, director and erstwhile public relations man, has Shakespeare on the brain. His adored wife Etta gave him five years to either make a living out of his passion for Shakespeare or get it out of his system, but neither plan has worked. Now he’s running out of time and she is running out of patience. After a series of adventures and misadventures in 21st century Manhattan, with a varied and vivid cast of characters worthy of Shakespeare himself, Bix decides his best bet is to establish The Church of Shakespeare, BT (Beyond Theory), featuring dramatic readings from Shakespeare designed to “engage people and to make them think,” as Bix imagines it. Not feminist, historicist, Marxist or Freudian, but Shakespeare as secular scripture. But who will make up the congregation and can he win back Etta’s love?