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Article: Back to the drawing board
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- October 29, 2007
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Theatre
Back to the drawing board
On stage, Alex remains as sketchy as the comic strip that inspired it
Alex
Arts Theatre, London WC2
Can you really put a comic strip on the stage? Many people have tried, and here at the tiny Arts Theatre Robert Bathurst, last seen playing an MP in Whipping It Up, makes the latest attempt with his depiction of the waggish financier Alex Masterley. Alex, the creation of Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor, appears every day in black and white on the pages of the Telegraph (having started at the short-lived London Daily News in 1987, and subsequently transferred to the Independent).
Any daily strip that has survived for more than 20 years has an independent ...