Wyndham's, LondonAt first the casting of Rowan Atkinson looks perverse. In fact it's inspired. The truly startling stroke in Simon Gray's 1981 play is that it makes its main character a void. Less of a presence than an absence. Not Mr Bean but scarcely being. Atkinson is on stage almost constantly, but as an often silent, almost transparent figure, a hopeless teacher who prises himself from his staffroom armchair to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PM on February 2, 2013