The Play's the Thing to Promote Estate Planning

Across the pond, as New Englanders say, the U.K. law firm Trethowans enlivens its estate planning seminars by teaming up with the Salisbury Playhouse production of Shadowlands:

[Solicitor Elizabeth] Webbe said: "It is to our mutual benefit to support the Playhouse, because the theatre needs commercial sponsorship, and we benefit by using the medium of theatre and storytelling to get across the sometimes complex issues involved in estate planning.

"Shadowlands is a ready-made vehicle to help us achieve this.

"We can link into the personal circumstances of characters in the show and use them to help highlight the points we wish to raise.

"It's an effective way of putting dry legal issues into context and showing their relevance."