FANCY a game of Quidditch? Muggles and wizards alike are in for a treat when Potted Potter: The Unauthorised Harry Experience swoops onto the stage at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts next week.

The brainchild of Jeff Turner and Bucks-born actor Dan Clarkson, Potted Potter squeezes all seven bestsellers from J K Rowling into just 70 minutes.

Audiences can expect an endless amount of costume changes, a Quidditch match with the audience, a magic duel with Voldermort, plenty of props and even a fire-breathing dragon.

Dan, who grew up in Little Chalfont and attended St Clement Danes School in Chorleywood, muses: "I'm constantly running around on stage, changing my costumes and wigs in a matter of seconds.

"While Jeff gets to play Harry Potter throughout much of the show, I play the other 300 or so characters. It's a great challenge for any actor really.

"Alan Rickman just gets to play Snape, but I can boast that I do them all!"

The comedy pair, who first met while busking in London four years ago, hit upon the idea for Potted Potter in 2005. They had been asked by a bookstore to perform a sketch of "five books in five minutes" at the launch of the sixth Harry Potter book.

"We didn't think that much of it, but the response was overwhelming," the 29-year-old actor tells me. "We thought, hey, we're onto something good here and decided to turn it into an hour-long show."

In 2006, the duo took Potted Potter to the Edinburgh Festival, where they received rave reviews and played to packed audiences. Apparently J K Rowling herself tried to buy a ticket for the show, but the box office staff, having not recognised her, simply said the show was sold out and turned her away.

Dan says: "When we found out we were gutted, but from that moment on we've always reserved the best seat in the house for her at our shows. I think she would really enjoy it - just to see a 6ft 4in actor playing Hermione really is something to behold."

Soon after Edinburgh, the pair were invited onto Richard And Judy and made regular appearances on long-running children's show Blue Peter.

So in what must be the ultimate homage to the Harry Potter series, does Dan now consider himself a true fan?

"Very much so, but I always have been," says Dan. "I openly admit I was one of those people always waiting in the queues for her latest book.

"Jeff didn't know so much before we started the show, but now he's read them all. Like many he tried to resist the power of Potter, but in the end he just couldn't."

Dan, who was a long-time member of The Carol Kristian Theatre School, based in Gerrards Cross and Chorleywood, tells me he is now looking forward to the pair's new show, Potted Pirates. Premiering this summer at the Edinburgh Festival, the show places a comic twist on such favourites as Treasure Island and Pirates of the Carribean.

Potted Potter: The Unauthorised Harry Experience arrives on Wednesday, May 28, 2.30pm and 7.30pm, at Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead. Tickets: 01628 788997