The Mentalists review " Stephen Merchant's West End debut is a strange affair
Wyndham's theatre, LondonRichard Bean's 2002 play about two oddball friends in a hotel room has been inflated to make a pricey West End star vehicleThe presence of Stephen Merchant, standup comic and co-creator of The Office, is the big draw in this revival of Richard Bean's 2002 play. But while Merchant is a perfectly capable actor and Bean's play, first seen in a National Theatre experimental season, has a peculiar…