There’s trouble at Tuffin’s Department Store; the inept general manager, the frustrated beautician, the furious customer and the sassy trouble-shooter all have one thing in common… ‘The Fabulist’ Mr Bartlett.

Playwright Tim Whitnall was inspired to write The Fabulist by the reported story of a department store that was allegedly employing an actor to take the role of the ‘fall guy’ when things went wrong.