Mark Heap's Perfect Nonsense in Jeeves and Wooster

 MARK HEAP is a sensation playing Wodehouse’s iconic Jeeves:
the wonderfully witty and dutiful valet to the aristocratic absurdity that is
Bertie Wooster. Notoriously renowned for
reducing its audiences to a bunch of raucously giggly children, Heap as Jeeves
in ‘Perfect Nonsense’ did not fail to deliver. Our team at Another Tongue are
unfortunately no exception to this rather embarrassing rule, as on Monday night
a whole band of us had a ‘sophisticated’ evening of ‘composed laughter'
(unashamed, uncontrollable, tear-jerking cackling, unfortunately being the more
apt description). It consequently comes as no surprise to us that the Wodehouse
adaptation was recently honoured with the Olivier award for the best comedy.

For the two- and-a-half-hour-long production, the audience
is swept away in the fanciful story of an absurd chase for a silver
‘cow-creamer’ jug. Though a seemingly trivial story to recount, poor Jeeves is
pushed to the edge of human limit; managing extravagant set designs, ostensibly
stopping time in order to initiate elaborate costume changes and quite
literally achieving what magicians could only ever dream of: being in two
places at the same time as a totally different character- really it’s a wonder
poor Mark hasn’t suffered an identity crisis! We certainly were left reeling in
confusion at Mark’s one-man deluge of characters.

If you haven’t already been swept up in this Perfect
Nonsense, head straight to their website and
and get yourself some tickets immediately!