A moonlighting bricklayer’s first play is so controversial, he’s arrested. The censors close down all the theatres in London, so no one can produce it…or anything else. To bounce back from his first debacle, Ben writes another script in an attempt to win a bar bet. His real prize: the chance to work with Will, as he learns how to become the second greatest playwright in town. A writers’ story of rivalry, friendship, making art, and making history. Also a mostly true story about the creation of Much Ado About Nothing and Every Man in His Humour.