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Dan and Jeff are asked to create a five-minute street show recapping the plot of the first five Potter books, for performance to queues of fans waiting for the midnight release of the sixth book.

Potted Potter is born as the street show expands into an hour-long performance in which the first six books are parodied. Under the guidance of director Richard Hurst, the show tours the U. The tour finishes with a Christmas run at Trafalgar Studios in London. More U.

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Dan and Jeff also launch their second show, Potted Pirates. Dan and Jeff wrestle the show back from them for a third and final Christmas run at Trafalgar Studios. Potted Potter returns for another tour, starting at Bury St. The show tours across Australasia and South Africa.

Things begin a little ominously for this fearless duo of reduced Rowling, writer-performers Jeff and Dan, who promise to deliver all seven Harry Potter books on stage, in just over an hour. Dan, however, is entirely ignorant of everything Hogwarts-related.

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But when Jeff picks up the first Potter instalment to boil down to five-minute size, dramatic matters take several turns for the better. Jeff is an overly enthused, bespectacled Harry, while Dan, a limitless supply of bad hats and dodgy plastic puppets to hand, plays everyone else, with increasingly anarchic, persuasive charm. That and the raucous game of quidditch, involving a blow-up globe, two large hoops, and a larger-than-life snitch that flies with the aid of flapping Marigold gloves.

There was an alarming moment when my year-old son and I entered the foyer of the Trafalgar Studios only to find the place bursting at the seams with tiny tots with ages ranging from five to eight. In fact it, looked as though we were going to be in for the theatrical equivalent of Jackanory. Edward assumed that martyred look of the self-conscious teenager with an unreliable parent. Forty years earlier, I would have adopted an identical expression myself.

But, in fact, the show turns out to be a bit of a blast. The two performers Dan and Jeff are a classic double act, with Jefferson Turner playing the Ernie Wise role of the perennially hopeful yet permanently aggrieved straight man, while Daniel Clarkson adopts the Eric Morecambe persona of the dotty surrealist who knows exactly how to wind his partner up.

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The pair whip up an atmosphere of crazy delirium with glove-puppet monsters, enjoyably awful jokes, quick changes, silly accents and frenzied slapstick. And the audience participation proves riotous, especially in a frenzied game of Quidditch, in which poor Jeff finds himself absurdly dressed up as the golden snitch and the adults in the audience behave even worse than the kids when it comes to gaining possession of the Quaffle.

As someone who gave up on the Potter books along with my wife and son when faced with the dauntingly long fourth instalment, deciding that life was too short for quite so much turgid prose and repetitive plotting, the irreverence of this show comes as a blessed relief. For those looking for an alternative to pantomime which will tickle the funny bone of every age group, this bonkers and blessedly brief show is just the ticket.

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Dan, in particular, often seems a trifle confused between his Potter and his Lord of the Rings and Narnia adventures. Then there is his misunderstanding about the difference between Hogwarts and warthogs. And when he plays the Defence of the Dark Arts teacher, Lupin, the werewolf has inexplicably transmuted into an elephant.

These mixups weigh heavily on self-appointed Harry Potter expert Jeff, all the more because Dan has used all the money set aside to employ 20 actors on the dragon in Book Four. The dragon, needless to say, turns out to be a severe disappointment. At moments, there is a touch of the National Theatre of Brent in the prickly relationship between Dan and Jeff.

This is also the only show in town in which the audience get to participate in a game of quidditch, even though Dan appears to think that a vacuum cleaner can be substituted for a Nimbus and Jeff has a trying time as the Golden Snitch. A winner in every way. Lyn Gardner, The Guardian. The cleverest thing about this two-man parody updated, book by book is that it appeals both to the ardent fan as an in-joke, and to parents… Precision disguised as incompetence is a perennial form of comedy. These guys are good. With all the Harry Potter books and movies done, and no new material to pore over, where can a devoted Muggle get a fix?

You could fly to Florida, to the Universal Studios Orlando theme park.

Using bad wigs and Silly String on a set so cheap it might have been furnished by Craigslist, Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Turner do indeed tell an abbreviated, ridiculous version of the Boy Who Lived. Turner plays Harry, though when he wears those signature glasses, he looks more like that pinball wizard, Elton John.

Clarkson, at least — the dragon from Book 4. A highlight is the game Quidditch played with audience participation. And a very golden Snitch.

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Potted Potter grew from a five-minute street sketch recapping the first five books that the two created in to entertain Potter fans lined up for the release of the sixth, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Besides, if you miss something, another laugh will be along shortly. Clearly Mr. The New York Times.

The unauthorised Harry Experience. A parody by. Dan and Jeff. About the Show. The Team. Delme Thomas. Jonathon Saunders. Scott Hoatson. Jesse Briton.