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Jeeves & Wooster: Perfect Nonsense continues with a new cast at the Duke of York’s in London.

Robert Webb is the effervescent, aristocratic fool Bertie Wooster, and Mark Heap is his dutiful valet Jeeves, replacing original cast members Stephen Mangan and Matthew Macfadyen. It won the best comedy at this year’s Olivier Awards.

BAFTA winning Robert is one half of the double act Mitchell and Webb, alongside David Mitchell, best known for the successful and long running TV series Peep Show.

Mark is well known to TV audiences as the pompous Dr Alan Statham in Green Wing and a variety of other appearances, including Skins, Hotel Babylon and Miranda.

The Daily Telegraph gave the new cast a four star review, saying, “this production remains as big a hoot as before”. Robert and Mark continue until 28 June.

Jeeves and Wooster – Perfect Nonsense is the first ever stage play adapted from the works of PG Wodehouse. Directed by Sean Foley and written by brothers David and Robert Goodale, based on “Plum’s” 1938 novel The Code of the Woosters.

The show had pre West End dates at the Richmond Theatre and Theatre Royal, Brighton before beginning previews at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London in October 2013, officially opening on the 12 November. Originally scheduled to run until March 2014, it has now been extended until September due to popular demand.

Stephen Mangan is the effervescent, aristocratic Bertie Wooster and Matthew Macfadyen is his dutiful and imperturbable Jeeves… when he’s not impersonating a number of other characters such as old buffer Sir Watkyn Bassett, the myopic Gussie Fink-Nottle and the feminine Stiffy Bying. They are joined by Mark Hadfield as Seppings… when he’s not playing the imposing Aunt Dahlia or the incipient dictator Roderick Spode.

The trio signed my sketch this week at the theatre.