Rowan Atkinson in something that wasn't Mr Bean

We saw Rowan Atkinson in a play the other week, we really only went to see the play because of him. It was called Quatermaine's Terms, and was written in the 1980's about a group of teachers at a foreign language school in the 1960's.  Basically it was about the loneliness of the British due to their inability to communicate anything like feelings or emotions to other people.  Rowan Atkinson played a character kind of similar to Mr Bean if you imagine Mr Bean being able to speak and having to hold down a job, with less of Mr Bean's exhuberance.  It was a pretty depressing play as this Rowan Atkinson character removed himself more and more from the surrounding teachers.

Rowan Atkinson was really good in it, his character was in nearly all of the scenes so he had to be pretty good, even though he was kind of peripheral to everything.  It's good to see him in something other than comedies, as he's pretty good.