Underneath the Lintel - TNT
26th February 2007
The West Wing's Richard Schiff forsakes the corridors of power to play an isolated misfit, a Dutch librarian who embarks on a worldwide quest when a Baedeker's travel guide is returned 113 years overdue. It's an unusual idea and, initially, as he pins his exhibits — a tattered pair of trousers, a laundry ticket — on the board behind him, it promises an intriguing evening of surreal sleuthing. But American playwright Glen Berger doesn't really know where to take his itinerant obsessive and, like the fate of the mythical Wandering Jew whom he believes he's traced, the 90-minute monologue eventually fizzles out in an unfocused 'meaning of life' meander.

LOUISE KINGSLEY