Asa Butterfield, Second Best

Second Best theatre review — Asa Butterfield makes an assured stage debut in this one-man show
His failure to land the part has coloured his life ever since — and now, on the brink of becoming a dad, it all comes tumbling out. At the three-month scan he falls off his chair and is concussed, upstaging his partner,
Asa Butterfield Is Conquering His Fear of the Stage — and Doing It the Hard Way
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 Extends Run at Riverside Studios
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.
Second Best at Riverside Studios review: Promising debut for Asa Butterfield as Harry Potter reject
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,
Second Best, Riverside Studios review - Asa Butterfield brings the magic
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.
Second Best with Sex Education’s Asa Butterfield extends London run
Asa Butterfield, best known for his role in Sex Education, is currently starring in Second Best, a one-man play written by Barney Norris.
Second Best review: Asa Butterfield makes a life-affirming theatre debut
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.
Asa Butterfield: After Sex Education I wanted to do something different
The Sex Education actor makes his theatre debut in a one-man-show about "that sliding doors moment".
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'Second Best' review — Asa Butterfield is a quiet revelation as a man struggling to reconcile his past with his future
Read our review of *Second Best*, adapted by Barney Norris, now in performances at Riverside Studios to 22 February. Read ...
Second Best: A Netflix star makes an assured debut as the boy who was nearly Harry Potter
Sex Education’s Asa Butterfield holds his own in this adroit one-man staging of the best-selling novel about a man who missed ...
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Second Best review
Sex Education's Asa Butterfield is riveting in his theatre debut playing a runner-up to Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter ...
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Second Best, starring Asa Butterfield, at Riverside Studios – review
That it marks the theatre debut of Asa Butterfield adds a layer of deliciousness to the conceit. Butterfield, best known as Otis in Netflix’s Sex Education, was a successful child actor who made his ...