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Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island

Bill Bryson's 1995 autobiographical reflection, adapted, brilliantly, for the stage by Tim Whitnall, sees a young man from Des Moines arrive in Dover to be faced with... well... The British.

Taking culture-shock to its limits, Bryson spends the next several years trying to reconcile History's notion of the British with his own experiences. Just how did a country with villages like Titsey and Shellow Bowels and with a national hero whose thoughts, on dying, turned to snogging his second-in-command and a people who chose to inflict Marmite on the planet, come to be a leading light in world history?

The teensiest of casts will play The Entire British Population as Bryson tries to get to grips with the Britishness of Britain in HumDrum's Bill Bryson's Notes From A Small Island, in what promises to be a re-evaluation of both the nation's public face and private parts.

So to speak.