MADFABULOUS

Synopsis

With an illustrious dynasty’s reputation at stake and a fatal diagnosis, the impulsive Lord Paget takes Isle of Anglesey by storm. If wealth is the power constraining him, he’s determined to spend every pence. Conventions are destroyed and otherness celebrated in this deliriously entertaining historical romp. Lord Paget (It’s a Sin’s Callum Scott Howells) is an ailing but filthy-rich consumptive. Given a prescription of carpe diem, he leans into a life of elaborate afternoon teas. In the aching absence of his father’s stewardship, Paget is offered protectiveness by his butler (a marvelous, near-unrecognizable Rupert Everett). But Paget’s flair seems to intoxicate the whole island, captivating his cousin (Ruby Stokes), an unconventional woman enamoured by eccentricity. Though even she may be unprepared for the coming drama. A sudden request from afar leading to a shock that may undo them all. Directed with joie de vivre by Celyn Jones (a callous mussel-farmer in I+N’s On the Sea) and bedecked with lavish production design, Madfabulous is Taylor Swift’s “The Last Great American Dynasty” as enacted on a Welsh island. An exuberant tragedy about a bon vivant determined to become “a living masterpiece.”

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