La critique

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There are a lot of double takes as Jeeves or Seppings realize they now have to be in a different role and costume and hair. So we have actors playing Jeeves and Seppings, who in turn are acting other roles, in an Art of Coarse Acting style..

But I'd say it's a poor show, chaps

Perfect Nonsense would have made PG Wodehouse proud, says Charles Spencer
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There are some unfortunates who can’t stick Wodehouse at any price, and fanatical admirers of the great man may feel that this show takes too many liberties with the master. But I suspect that Wodehouse himself would have loved this production, and there is no doubt that it captures the dotty, sunlit innocence of his work with panache.

The adaptation rattles along very pleasingly and the set is brilliantly intricate, but the real star of the show is still Wodehouse's writing.[...]
In accordance with a centuries-old tradition more usually found at the Globe than on the West End, the play ends with a dance - a Charleston to be precise. Macfadyen manages to maintain a touch of Jeeves-like wryness throughout, while Mangan, resplendent in a red velvet smoking jacket, puts Bertie Wooster's heart and soul into every high kick. Who could ask for anything more?

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This is all wrapped and polished by the talent of the actors. Stephen Mangan as Wooster finds himself as the straight man holding the whole thing together. Wide eyed and incessantly good natured, he also captures the knowledge and the terror of a man unable to survive by himself.

Matthew Macfadyen’s Jeeves steps up to fulfil any necessary function, behind the scenes or in the limelight. Butler, dresser, stagehand and man of many faces, he balances unflappability with a roller coaster ride of disparate characters tumbling into one another. His Gussie – all bottle glasses and jelly limbs – is particularly fine, as is his beguilingly confident Stiffy Byng. It’s a performance of masterful precision and seemingly bottomless energy.

Mark Hadfield handles the remaining characters. As Seppings, the butler who is roped in to help with Wooster’s production, he is resigned to fate and to lack of confidence. The moment he takes on another character, he is transformed to a comic genius. Anyone who has seen Hadfield’s previous work (his was the only funny gravedigger in the history of Hamlet productions) knows his subtly subversive energy, simultaneously unassuming and unexpectedly explosive.

Stephen Mangan triumphs again, alongside Matthew Macfadyen, in this super West End adaptation of P G Wodehouse’s Jeeves & Wooster

L'article confond Madeline et Stiffy visiblement... mais, au fond, est-ce si important ?