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In a sleepy whistle-stop where picket fences resemble battlements, two households—one a dynasty of vainglorious thespians, the other a cabal of penny-pinching impresarios—hurl egos instead of gauntlets. Their progeny, a moonstruck stagehand and a firebrand ingenue, rehearse love amid greasepaint fumes and footlight shadows, swapping sonnets for sarcastic asides and balconies for rickety catwalks. Every moonlit tryst curdles into public spectacle; every vow is heckled by a Greek-chorus of hecklers armed with rotten produce. When the town’s centennial pageant demands the families co-produce, the duo hijack the production, turning Shakespeare’s star-crossed tragedy into a rollicking vaudeville that lampoons their parents’ pomposity, exposing the hollow artifice of both stage and society. Curtain falls on a chaotic ovation: the lovers exit arm-in-arm, reputations shredded yet spirits unbroken, leaving elders to bow before an audience now drunk on irreverence.