Read our review of *Second Best*, adapted by Barney Norris, now in performances at Riverside Studios to 22 February. Read more theatre reviews on LondonTheatre.co.uk.

Asa Butterfield has been in many things in his life so far, playing many characters. It’s evident he’s an excellent actor, but Second Best may be one of his greatest performances so far. This is an 80-minute story you don’t want to miss out on.

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,

The British actor opens up about life as a Netflix fave, the Amazon series he's desperate to star in and his upcoming stage debut in a one-man play about a man who narrowly lost out on the role of Harry Potter: "It's time to break out of that 'Sex Ed' bubble and scare myself.

Your response to Barney Norris’s one-man play, based on David Foenkinos’s bestselling novel as translated by Megan Jones, probably depends on which of the Gens is yours.

The human psyche is something so easily disturbed, and Barney Norris ’s newest play-adaptation is a prime example of that. Based on the novel by David Foenkinos, Second Best tells of Martin Hill - the boy who felt he never fully lived.