Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense

The play, which runs from March 9 March 14 sees Jason Thorpe joining Robert to play Jeeves and Christopher Ryan will play Seppings.

Winning Best New Comedy at the 2014 Olivier Awards, the charmingly incompetent Bertie Wooster (Webb) and his unflappable valet Jeeves are brought to life in this highly acclaimed comedy by brothers Robert and David Goodale and is based on and adapted from the established literary works of P.G. Wodehouse.

When a country house weekend takes a turn for the worse, foppish fool Bertie is unwittingly called on to play matchmaker, but also to steal a silver cow creamer from Totleigh Towers.

Naturally, his ever dependable valet Jeeves is there to prevent Bertie from making a fool of himself in front of a cast of Wodehouse’s finest characters including Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, Sir Watkin Bassett, Dahlia Travers, Roderick Spode and Constable Oates.

Robert Webb is best known for his role as Jeremy in Channel 4’s multi-award winning Peep Show which he stars alongside long-time collaborator David Mitchell.

Alongside this, Mitchell and Webb wrote and starred in The Mitchell and Webb Situation and That Mitchell and Webb Look which won the BAFTA for best comedy in 2007.

A regular on comedy panel shows, he has also appeared in Fresh Meat, BBC3’s The Smoking Room and British films Confetti, Magicians and The Wedding Video.

In 2008 Webb made his West End stage debut in the UK premiere of Fat Pig by Neil LaBute at Trafalgar Studios and has subsequently appeared on stage in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense (Duke of York’s) and the Chichester transfer of Neville’s Island (Duke of York’s).

For more information about the play, produced by Mark Goucher and Mark Rubinstein, visit Birmingham-rep.co.uk.

The play will also be performed at Malvern’s Festival Theatre for one week from Monday, March 30 to Saturday, April 4.