POTTED POTTER, Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis

PERFORMED by Dan Clarkson and Jefferson Turner, Potted Potter is a breakneck rattle through all seven of Rowling's books, blending anarchic humour with an obvious love of the tales.

Jeff is the proper' Potter fan, a bit of a stickler for order, clarity and correct stage props. Dan is a buffoon who can't understand that an ancient vacuum cleaner is no substitute for a Nimbus 2000 broom, nor that a tiny model car simply will not do to replicate Arthur Weasley's flying Ford Anglia.

All this depresses Jeff utterly, although not quite as much as the fact that the money he set aside to finance 25 top London actors, an impressive stage set, a giant basilisk snake and the airborne Ford Anglia was squandered by Dan on a flying, fire-breathing, terrifying dragon as seen in Goblet of Fire.

The dragon, inevitably, turns out to be a rather disappointing rubber dinosaur hand puppet.

But what Dan lacks in brains he makes up in energy. While Jeff mainly plays The Boy Who Lived (with Harry' written across his forehead instead of a lightning-strike scar - thanks Dan), his compadre fills in the other character gaps with great enthusiasm and imagination.

Thus, the ginger Weasley clan all had scarlet wigs and Chav accents, Lord Voldemort was Dan with a pair of red devil horns, Hagrid was Dan in a daft wig and Scots accent and the werewolf Professor Lupin was for some bizarre reason a transformed Dan wearing an elephant hat.

It was totally bonkers and worked a treat.

The highlight of the performance was an anarchic game of Quidditch, with the audience divided into two teams - Gryffindor and Slytherin, obviously - battling it out over a giant beach ball. Meanwhile on stage, Jeff dressed as the Golden Snitch and was terrorised by two pint-sized Seekers picked at random from the audience.

The show was utterly brilliant - I would happily see it more than once - and another coup for the excellent Marine Theatre, which is rapidly turning into West Dorset's most popular boutique venue.

POTTY ABOUT HARRY: Jeff and Dan with Potted Potter fancy dress winners George Earwicker as Dumbledore and Roya Ghabee as Belatrix Lestrange at the Marine Theatre