Meet the Functionals. John and Sue are the nicest couple on the street and endlessly polite. Their son Ben is just as agreeable, until he brings home Mia, his sharp, sweary, pub-loving girlfriend from Essex. Suddenly Ben is learning to disagree, and the Functionals' perfect world starts to wobble.

Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, embarks on a dangerous pursuit of truth and justice while he contends with the grief from the death of his father and the subsequent marriage of his mother to his uncle. Hamlet struggles to deal with his grief and ultimately isolates himself from those who try to help him.

In this re-imagined version of King Lear, perhaps Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, Lear is the story of an aging queen, who, after failing to get the show of devotion she expects from her three daughters, divides her kingdom, destroys her family, and banishes those closest to her leaving her kingdom in ruins.