sparkish

As Sparkish, the foppiest fop of the lot, a puffed-up portrait in fuchsia, Paul Mullins is an exemplar of disdainful style, investing his constant response ("Oh, pshaw!")

Andrew Davies's Prin, a hit at the Lyric Hammersmith, moves to the Lyric, Shaftesbury Avenue, with Sheila Hancock still in command as a Sparkish college principal.