Sam Harrison is now on stage at Charing Cross Theatre, where he is starring in Jeeves Takes Charge for a strictly limited season until September 16, 2026.
Adapted by James Duke, Edward Duke and Hugh Wooldridge, this dazzling one-man adaptation of PG Wodehouse’s beloved Jeeves and Wooster stories sees Harrison play all 22 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.
Wodehouse wrote more than 70 novels and more than 300 short stories across an extraordinary literary career spanning seven decades.
Jeeves Takes Charge is directed by Hugh Wooldridge, with scenic design by Caite Hevner, lighting design by Tim Mitchell and sound design by Paul Groothuis.
Tickets here.
Top image: Sam Harrison in Jeeves Takes Charge. Credit Craig Fuller (image supplied)