Jeeves Takes Charge; Charing Cross Theatre; 13th August - 6th September; from £17.50
First seen 45 years ago, the Olivier Award-winning and much-loved Jeeves Takes Charge returns to London for a strictly limited season at Charing Cross Theatre from Thursday 13th August – Wednesday 16th September, before transferring to Mayflower Studios, Southampton from Tuesday, ahead of a UK tour in 2027.
Adapted by James Duke, Edward Duke and Hugh Wooldridge, and starring West End, Chichester and RSC favourite Sam Harrison, this dazzling one-man adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse’s beloved Jeeves and Wooster stories sees Harrison play all twenty-two characters, including the indefatigable Jeeves, the much-loved Bertie Wooster, Florence Craye, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Bingo Little, Uncle Willoughby and Aunt Dahlia, in a bravura tour-de-force performance.
Set in Wodehouse’s gloriously absurd world of country houses, terrifying aunts, engagements gone wrong and gentlemanly panic, Jeeves Takes Charge follows the hapless Bertie Wooster as his brilliantly resourceful valet Jeeves attempts to steer him away from disaster – and matrimony – at every turn.
First premiering in London in 1980, Jeeves Takes Charge became an unexpected theatrical phenomenon, produced at the Fortune Theatre in the West End by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cameron Mackintosh, Barbara Dickson and Bernard Theobald. Edward Duke won the Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for his original performance in the production.
