Robert Webb and Mark Heap have been announced as the new pair to take over the reins from Stephen Mangan and Matthew Mcfadyen in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York’s Theatre from 7 April 2014.
Comedian and actor Robert Webb will play Bertie Wooster and Mark Heap will play the dutiful butler Jeeves in the critically acclaimed production from director Sean Foley and writers Robert and David Goodale. The show based on P.G Wodehouse’s much-loved characters and his 1937 novel The Code of the Woosters opened at the Duke of York’s Theatre in October 2013 and has now extended its run to 20 September 2014.
The play revolves around the idea that nice but dim Bertie Wooster is presenting a show on the stage of a West End theatre about his recent expedition to Totleigh Towers in which he was tasked to steal an antique silver cow-creamer. Bertie then enlists the help of his long-suffering valet Jeeves to help him tell this bizarre story.
Robert Webb is best known for his comic partnership with David Mitchell. Their work together includes Peep Show, The Mitchell and Webb Situation and That Mitchell and Webb Look. His stage credits include Raving at the Hampstead Theatre last year, and Fat Pig by Neil LaBute at the Trafalgar Studios. Webb also won the first Lets Dance for Comic Relief.
Mark Heap is well known for his roles in several Television comedies including Spaced, Green Wing and Friday Night Dinner, and has also been seen on TV in Jam, Brass Eye and Lark Rise to Candleford. His earlier stage roles include Cartoons From A Cold Corner at the Gate Theatre and Dragon at the National Theatre.
Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense continues at the Duke of York's Theatre until 20 September 2014, with Webb and Heap taking over from 7 April 2014.
