It takes around ten minutes before this play actually mentions the thing that anyone who’s booked a ticket already knows, which is this: ‘When I was a kid,’ says bespectacled, brown-haired Martin Hill,

The British actor opens up about life as a Netflix fave, the Amazon series he's desperate to star in and his upcoming stage debut in a one-man play about a man who narrowly lost out on the role of Harry Potter: "It's time to break out of that 'Sex Ed' bubble and scare myself.

Second Best, starring Asa Butterfield, will present an extra week of performances at the Riverside Studios. Learn more about the show and see how to purchase tickets.

Asa Butterfield has been in many things in his life so far, playing many characters. It’s evident he’s an excellent actor, but Second Best may be one of his greatest performances so far. This is an 80-minute story you don’t want to miss out on.

Your response to Barney Norris’s one-man play, based on David Foenkinos’s bestselling novel as translated by Megan Jones, probably depends on which of the Gens is yours.