
For every Ringo Starr there’s a Pete Best, for every Sean Connery a Stanley Baker. For every Daniel Radcliffe?
It takes around ten minutes before this play actually mentions the thing that anyone who’s booked a ticket already knows, which is this: ‘When I was a kid,’ says bespectacled, brown-haired Martin Hill, played by bespectacled, brown-haired Sex Education star Asa Butterfield in his stage debut, ‘I got down to the last two to play Harry Potter.’