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Undeterred by the destruction of his sumptuous Villa Jovi Il Secondo, his bizarre souvenir collection of multi-coloured halluces and a famous movie star lover, eccentric billionaire slayboy Treyton Templeton refashions himself by building his own Colosseum Treyton Templeton in the grounds of Manorken his country estate, complete with a live-in emperor and empress plus scheduled bloodthirsty gladiatorial fights interspersed with concerts and homegrown operettas performed by the local ladies’ choir.
To compensate for the destroyed halluces (medical term for a big toe) Treyton recruits his own version of Emperor Qin Shi Huang’s terracotta army with an army of elaborately decorated skeletons deployed to guard a further expedient, an 18th century castle in Scotland: the renamed Castle Templeton lavishly redecorated throughout in garish Templeton tartan.
Fully aware the man behind the bombing, South African Brian van der Westhuizen, could make a further attempt on his life, Treyton makes sure that a replay of Birnam Wood advancing on Dunsinane remains an impossibility. Not even the wily Bard could not have anticipated what happened next. To be or not to be, that is the million-euro question.
