Top actors in Jeeves and Wooster play coming to Milton Keynes

Two stars of stage and screen will lead the cast in an acclaimed laugh-a-minute comedy coming to Milton Keynes next year.

Tom Rosenthal will play the gloriously hapless Bertie Wooster alongside Adrian Scarborough as his unflappable valet Jeeves in Perfect Nonsense. Expect laugh-out-loud comedy, mistaken identities, romantic entanglements, spectacular muddles and a colourful cast of wonderfully eccentric characters as PG Wodehouse’s world of charm and mischief bursts onto the stage.

Rosenthal is an acclaimed British actor and comedian, best known for playing Jonny Goodman in the hit Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner and Marcus Gallo in ITV2’s Plebs. His further screen credits include Broadchurch, Dad’s Army: The Lost Episodes, Drunk History and Bridget Jones’s Baby. Alongside his screen career, he is an established stand-up comedian, performing at venues and festivals across the UK.

Scarborough is a two-time Olivier Award-winning British actor best known for playing Pete Sutcliffe in the hit BBC comedy Gavin & Stacey and the title role in The Chelsea Detective. His extensive television credits include Killing Eve, A Very English Scandal, Doctor Who, Miranda, Sanditon, Plebs, Blunt Talk, Mr Bigstuff, Falling and War. His film credits include 1917, The King's Speech, Les Misérables, Gosford Park, Vera Drake, Notes on a Scandal and On Chesil Beach. Alongside his screen career, he is an acclaimed stage actor, having won two Olivier Awards for his performances in After the Dance (National Theatre) and Leopoldstadt (Wyndham's Theatre).

The show is directed by Phillip Breen, an acclaimed British theatre director, writer and associate artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His directing credits include How the Other Half Loves (The Old Vic), Anna Karenina (Chichester Festival Theatre), The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Shoemaker’s Holiday, The Hypocrite and The Provoked Wife (Royal Shakespeare Company), True West (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow and Tricycle Theatre, London) and Sherlock Holmes and the 12 Days of Christmas (Birmingham Rep). His international work includes productions in Japan, the United States and Australia, and he has directed and adapted works including King Lear, Crime and Punishment and A Streetcar Named Desire in Japan.

Based primarily on The Code of the Woosters, one of Wodehouse’s comic masterpieces, the play is written by Robert Goodale and David Goodale. It was first staged on the West End in 2013 and became a success with audiences and critics alike, winning the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2014.

Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as one of Britain’s greatest comedy writers. In addition to Jeeves and Wooster, his beloved characters include Psmith, Lord Emsworth and the prize pig Empress of Blandings.

The show is is produced by ATG Productions, whose other shows include the seven-time Olivier Award-winning Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club (Playhouse Theatre); Dolly: A True Original Musical, the new Dolly Parton musical (St James Theatre, Broadway); the three-time Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Public Theater, New York); and Pretty Woman: The Musical (UK tour).

Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense runs at Milton Keynes Theatre from Tuesday March 30 to Saturday April 3.

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