Central character in this play is Edmund Кин. Legendary actor, participant of many scandals, he not once became a hero both in literature and in the cinema. Grigory Горин offers it a bit, as usual ironical look to the great actor. Кин is in a play, it is a theatre incarnate in one personality. Man of reckless talent and трикстер. Nevertheless, his status at public is very contradictory: adoring him on the stage, after her it is often perceived the limits of him as an agitator, adding to him the great number of vices over those, that is actually. But while Prince Wales, future George IV, favours him - all is folded very successfully. However, soon a situation changes cardinally.