JEEVES & WOOSTER TO SERVE UP COMEDY TREAT AT
THEATRE ROYAL
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| John Gordon Sinclair (Jeeves) and James Lance (Bertie Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense. Photo: Uli Weber |
The Olivier
award-winning West
End comedy Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense is
set to arrive at Newcastle Theatre Royal this Autumn starring James Lance and John Gordon Sinclair as P.G Wodehouse’s iconic double
act. Prepare for lashings of aristocratic tomfoolery from Tue 14 to Sat 18 October
2014.
A new play based on and adapted from the short
stories and novels of P.G Wodehouse by brothers Robert and David Goodale, Perfect
Nonsense comes direct from the West End and fresh from winning The Olivier Award Best New Comedy 2014.
James
Lance stars as the charmingly incompetent aristocrat Bertie Wooster and John
Gordon Sinclair as his dutiful, unflappable and ever well-informed valet
Jeeves.
Lance is well-known for his numerous roles comedy series including
Teachers, The Book Group, Smack the Pony and I’m Alan Partridge. He has also appeared on screen in films such as
Marie Antoinette directed by Sofia
Coppola and Bel Ami which starred
Robert Pattinson. James’ stage credits include Celebrity Autobiography (Leicester Square Theatre) and Ingredient X (Royal Court).
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| John Gordon Sinclair (Jeeves) and James Lance (Bertie Wooster) in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense. Photo: Uli Webe |
Gordon
Sinclair is an Olivier Award-winning Scottish actor best-known for playing
Gregory in Bill Forsyth’s iconic 1981 film Gregory’s
Girl. In 1995 he won the Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his
performance in She Loves Me (West End).
John most recently played Professor Marcus in the West End
run of The Ladykillers. Other stage
credits include The Producers, Absurd Person Singular (both West End)
and The Invisible Man (Menier
Chocolate Factory). John recently appeared alongside Brad Pitt in the
thriller World War Z. His acclaimed
debut novel Seventy Times Seven was
published in 2012.
Co-writer Robert Goodale plays the part of Seppings.
Goodale is
an Olivier Award-winning writer whose career began as an actor.
Like
many siblings growing up together, writers Robert and David Goodale enjoyed
their own, very particular brand of humour. As children they created a range of
ridiculous characters that seamlessly evolved into members of their extended
family. It was only later that they discovered that P.G. Wodehouse had beaten
them to it, in creating an entirely credible world full of even more
deliciously bonkers characters.
As adults entering the real world, Robert became an actor,
while David pursued a career as a documentary filmmaker, but both remained
committed to making people laugh. Two years ago they were encouraged to combine
their comic talents to adapt P.G. Wodehouse’s The Code of the Woosters for the stage. They finally put pen to
paper, and several drafts later, with the blessing of the Wodehouse Estate, Perfect Nonsense was born.
The action
commences when a country house weekend takes a turn for the worse and Bertie
Wooster is unwittingly called on to play matchmaker, but also to steal a silver
cow creamer from Totleigh Towers.
Naturally, the ever dependable Jeeves is there to prevent Bertie from making a
fool of himself in front of a cast of Wodehouse’s finest characters. An evening
of raucous comedy, theatrical absurdity and ridiculous antics unfold in the
company of Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, Sir Watkin Bassett, Dahlia
Travers, Roderick Spode and Constable Oates!
The
production is directed by Sean Foley, an
award-winning actor, writer and director. He co-founded The Right Size,
creating over ten original comedies for the theatre including the Olivier
Award-winning and Tony-nominated production of The Play What I Wrote (Best Comedy 2002) and Do You Come Here Often? (Best Entertainment 1999). His theatre
credits also include the multi Olivier-nominated The Ladykillers that toured to Newcastle Theatre Royal in Spring
2013.
It
is produced in the West End by Mark Goucher and Mark Rubinstein.
Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense appears at Newcastle Theatre Royal from Tue 14 – Sat 18 October 2014 (Evenings: 7.30pm,
Matinees: Wednesday & Thursday 2pm and
Saturday 2.30pm). Tickets are from £13.00 (a booking fee of 95p -
£1.95 will apply to most tickets) and can be purchased from the Theatre Royal
Box Office on 08448 11 21 21 or select your own seat and book online at www.theatreroyal.co.uk
Twitter: @bertiewooster
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