Rough Haired Pointer stage child’s-eye-view of the world
The Young Visiters is the most famous book in history written by a nine-year-old. Precocious Victorian child, Daisy Ashford, and her child’s-eye-view of the adult world was championed by J.M. Barrie and first published in 1919 (28 years after it was written) complete with idiosyncratic spellings. Now Rough Haired Pointer (Diary of a Nobody, Fred & Madge) are giving London audiences another chance to see their adaptation of this cult book at The Tabard Theatre in Chiswick for four weeks in March. The Young Visiters is and Ashford’s eye for adult absurdity has real comic bite. A young cast of six will bring The Young Visitors – full of innocent (or not so innocent) double entendres – to life. Rough Haired Pointer was founded by Mary Franklin and Carin Nakanishi in 2013. Since then the company has expanded to include a composer, producer and a company of associate actors. Intentionally rough … Read more
