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Second Best review: Asa Butterfield makes a life-affirming theatre debut

Summary by Radio Times

Sex Education’s Asa Butterfield makes for a stunning stage debut in the one-man play, Second Best. Now, you’d be forgiven for assuming Butterfield had been on stage before. After all, he’s been a star on British TV screens since he was a child, and after seeing this show, it’s frankly astonishing to think this is his debut – what a talent theatre has been missing! In Second Best, you’re following the journey of a man, Martin Hill, who is about t…

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Second Best review: Asa Butterfield makes a life-affirming theatre debut

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Asa Butterfield has nowhere to hide in his brave stage debut

Imagine if you made it to the final two for the part of Harry Potter in the global juggernaut film series – but you weren’t Daniel Radcliffe? What would your life look like as a man in your thirties? This is the hugely catchy premise of Second Best, Barney Norris’s new one-man play based on the 2023 French novel by David Foenkinos. The lone man – lonely man, for much of the action – doing the talking is Sex Education star Asa Butterfield, who is…

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Fairy Powered Productions

Second Best, Starring Asa Butterfield to Extend Run at Riverside Studios To March 1st - Fairy Powered Productions

SECOND BEST EXTENDS RIVERSIDE STUDIOS RUN FOLLOWING PHENOMENAL PUBLIC DEMAND AS ASA BUTTERFIELD MAKES A CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED STAGE DEBUT Now playing at the Riverside Studios until Saturday 1 March 2025 www.secondbestplay.com In response to high public demand, Simon Friend Entertainment is delighted to announce an extra week of performances for Second Best at the Riverside Studios. Asa Butterfield stars, having received critical and audience ac…

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Beyond The Joke

Theatre Review: Second Best, Riverside Studios

Life is as much about near misses as it is about direct hits. The ball that nearly crosses the line, the love of your life that was late for a date and you went home alone. Tags: Asa

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SECOND BEST review by thespyinthestalls.com at Riverside

SECOND BEST Riverside Studios ★★★★ “Butterfield navigates the journey with a fearless and faultless performance” Much has been made in the media recently of Asa Butterfield’s stage debut. In interviews he has said that theatre “has always terrified” him. We get the impression that this is genuine, rather than a false modesty. Having made his name in “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” at the age of ten, he went on to play the lead in Martin Scorse…

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