Fiachra Gibbons, arts correspondent
Friday December 21 2001
The Guardian

It is the stuff of West End legend. Three months ago, outside the threadbare world of fringe theatre, Sean Foley and Hamish McColl were not just poor and obscure – they were poor and obscure and getting dangerously close to 40. Now Hollywood stars are queuing up for the privilege of appearing on stage to be mercilessly sent up by the double act known as The Right Size.

The Play What I Wrote yesterday broke the record for the highest advance ticket sales of any play in West End history, beating the half a million pounds taken by Alan Bennett’s The Lady in a Van, starring Maggie Smith. And this from an opening so unpromising that David Pugh, the producer who turned Yasmina Reza’s gentle satire on pretentiousness, Art, into the modern Mousetrap, was beginning to doubt his Midas touch. “We had only 22,000 advance bookings which, if not the worst ever in the West End, is pretty close to it.”

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