On Carin Nakanishi’s great black-and-white line-drawn set, six actors play out the comings and goings – quite literally in the case of Pooter’s friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing – at Pooter’s house over 15 months. Pooter, the fictional character at the heart of brothers George and Weedon Grossmith’s 1892 book ‘The Diary of a Nobody’ is a painfully pretentious middle-class bank clerk, whose day-to-day goings are 90 percent trivial, ten percent glorious chaos.Īdapting playwright and director Mary Franklin bravely puts the hapless Charles Pooter and his family in all their idiocy onstage. In the ’90s everyone laughed at Bridget Jones’s Anne Frank’s still makes us gasp in horror today, but in Victorian London the diary that everyone read was that of the ridiculous Mr Pooter. The show returns to the Kings Head in 2017. This review was of the show's run at the White Bear theatre.
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