Rough Haired Pointer stage child’s-eye-view of the world

Marianne Chase and Andrew Brock in The Young Visiters. Photo: Ophelia Lau

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 around the edges, they believe in celebrating the elements of chance and play in live drama with a backbone of trust, fidelity to the text and an understanding that comes from a strong collaborative ethos.

Past work includes Noonday Demons by Peter Barnes (King's Head Theatre 2015); a new adaptation of George and Weedon Grossmith's The Diary of a Nobody (White Bear and King's Head Theatres 2014-15); Marco Polo? by Matt Osman (Hen and Chickens 2014); the world premiere of Joe Orton's Fred & Madge (Hope Theatre 2014); The Boy Who Cried by Matt Osman (Hope and Tabard Theatres 2014) and The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford (Hen and Chickens Theatre 2013).

The Young Visiters by Daisy Ashford is at the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick from 1 March - 26 March 2016