Tom Rosenthal plays Bertie Wooster and Adrian Scarborough his unflappable valet when Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense goes back on the road in 2027, opening at Aylesbury on 29 January.
The Olivier-winning Wodehouse comedy Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense is heading out on a UK tour in 2027. It opens at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre on 29 January and visits 13 venues before closing at the Grand Opera House in York on 8 May.
Tom Rosenthal takes on the hapless Bertie Wooster, with Adrian Scarborough as his valet Jeeves. Phillip Breen, an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company whose credits include How the Other Half Loves at the Old Vic, directs. The tour is produced by ATG Productions.
Rosenthal is best known as Jonny Goodman in Friday Night Dinner and Marcus Gallo in Plebs, and also tours as a stand-up. Scarborough, Pete Sutcliffe in Gavin & Stacey and the title role in The Chelsea Detective, has two Olivier Awards to his name, for After the Dance at the National Theatre and Leopoldstadt at Wyndham's Theatre.
The pair share the stage with a third actor as the butler Seppings: Bertie sets out to tell the story of his latest country-house misadventure as a one-man show, and it falls to the other two to play everyone else.
Brothers Robert Goodale and David Goodale wrote the play. It premiered in the West End in 2013 with Stephen Mangan as Bertie and Matthew Macfadyen as Jeeves, and won the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy the following year.
London audiences get one week: Richmond Theatre hosts the show from 2-6 March. The Cambridge, Liverpool and Sheffield dates go on sale soon. The full 2027 schedule:
- 29 January - 6 February: Aylesbury Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury
- 9-13 February: Opera House, Manchester
- 16-20 February: Theatre Royal, Brighton
- 23-27 February: Princess Theatre, Torquay
- 2-6 March: Richmond Theatre, London
- 9-13 March: The Arts Theatre, Cambridge
- 16-20 March: Theatre Royal, Glasgow
- 23-27 March: Woking Theatre, Woking
- 30 March - 3 April: Milton Keynes Theatre, Milton Keynes
- 13-17 April: Liverpool Playhouse, Liverpool
- 20-24 April: Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield
- 27 April - 1 May: The Alexandra, Birmingham
- 4-8 May: Grand Opera House, York
For more information, visit the official website.
