THE PASSING OF THE THIRD FLOOR BACK Finborough Theatre

Finborough Theatre, revives two famous plays, which has not been seen in years, an invaluable service to all those interested in theatre history. Jerome K Jerome is known today only as the author of that classic comic novel Three Men in a Boat but in 1908 he had a huge box-office success with his modern morality play, The Passing of The Third Floor Back, which is set in a third-rate boarding house in Bloomsbury. A Stranger, a Christ-like personage, arrives and converts the sinful lodgers by appealing to their better selves and praising them for the good qualities they did not know they had. Jonny Kelly’ directs a first-rate ensemble and Lizzie Faber’s gentle harp playing is very much part of the revival’s success.