One of the funniest hours on the fringe, this comedy by Andrew Doyle is a delightful mix of wit and absurdity. A group of actors assemble in Stratford to do a fringe production of Macbeth, not knowing it’s a front for the producer’s plan, inspired by Shakespeare’s ghost, to rob the poet’s grave in search of lost plays. And so we get, piled on top of another, lots of backstage jokes involving dreadful auditions and bitchy zingers among the luvies, lots of Shakespeare parody in the rehearsals and plans for an all-singing all-dancing Macbeth, and lots of earthy comedy as Anne Hathaway’s ghost lays out her grievances against her hubby. The cast are all first-rate, with special praise due to Harry Dickman’s sly Shakespeare.

GERALD BERKOWITZ