My take on these two short plays is clearly documented in my log:
The Local Stigmatic: Dreadful.
The Dwarfs: Much better than the Stigmatic!!
That’s all he wrote, folks.
We liked the Lyric Studio back then and quite often went there for interesting new works or (as in this case) rarely seen revivals. Mandrake Theatre Company seems to have been in the business for that sort of thing, although I don’t think we saw their work too often.
Despite being in the low-key studio, this double bill was reviewed by The Standard. Nick Curtis did not agree with my comparative take on the two plays, giving both the dreaded Standard “X”:
Stigmatic Curtis Standard 26 May 2000, Fri Evening Standard (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com
We were not having a great run in May 2000, but, fear not, we saw some excellent stuff in June.