It is to be hoped that this review is unrepresentative. For whatever reason, at the performance under review, Rodney Bewes had a complete shocker, never getting into either his part or, more damagingly, the script.
That was a real pity as the idea of the Likely Lad playing Mr Pooter, the ultimate diarist and arguably, one of the funniest men in the language, was delectable. The scene was set by a charming cartoon set based on the Pooter drawing room.
Bewes took us through Pooter's Greatest Hits with the red enamel paint, the Mansion House Ball and the vicissitudes of young Lupin, both in love and employment (or the lack of both).
There were inevitably some great laughs but not as many as there should have been and these divided between the lines from the script and the actor's numerous asides.