Robert Bathurst star of award-winning comedy-drama series Cold Feet, historic-period drama Downton Abbey and sitcom Toast of London will play the iconic journalist in a brand-new immersive production of Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell in this unique pub production at Norman’s Coach & Horses. Jeffrey Bernard was a comparatively well-born journalist who hardly qualifies as working class, but his choice of pub, The Coach and Horses in Soho, was as rundown an old barn as he could find. Whilst Keith Waterhouse, who fictionalised his life in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell is one is one of the breakthrough working-class novelists and playwrights of the Angry Young Men era. Even where the upper middle-class flickers towards a pub, we don’t get a glimpse of it. Young Birling’s drunken antics, which are part of the destruction of the life of a young woman, are reported back to the dinner-jacketed family in their drawing room in Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, for example. And Pinter’s Emma and Jerry from that opening stage direction above are only in the pub because they can’t think where else would be a neutral place to end the affair the play’s about to ravel backwards. Nope, to date, the pub remains largely a venue for drama about the lower orders. The time of the Gastropub play is yet to come. Don’t miss the chance to down a pint in Norman’s Coach and Horses whilst this Soho legend puts a few (many!) drinks on the tab and regales us with stories of busted bookies, failed marriages, illegal cat-racing and introduces us to his favourite pub trick involving a pint glass, match-box and raw egg! #thispubfullofstars #anamazingplaybyrobertbathurst #wow #whataperformance #highlyrecommended #highyrecommend #mustseeplay #unique #fabolousperformance #thankyou (at Norman's Coach and Horses) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByZo0gShIEr/?igshid=j7mf0howykyq