Jeeves Takes Charge: A Comic Masterclass at Charing Cross Theatre
There are very few performers alive who could hold an audience entirely alone on a stage for two hours while inhabiting twenty-two different characters, flipping between them mid-scene, mid-sentence, sometimes mid-breath, and make it look not just effortless but genuinely, helplessly funny. Sam Harrison, West End, Chichester and RSC favourite, is one of them, and his performance in Jeeves Takes Charge at the Charing Cross Theatre is the kind of theatrical event that reminds you why live comedy, at its best, is an art form unto itself. Adapted by James Duke, Edward Duke and Hugh Wooldridge from P.G. Wodehouse's beloved Jeeves and Wooster stories, and directed by Hugh Wooldridge, this is a production with forty-five years of history behind it, and it has lost absolutely none of its charm.