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Robert Webb returns to Jeeves and Wooster on UK tour

Webb will reprise his performance as Bertie Wooster in the award-winning comedy

Jason Thorpe (Jeeves), Robert Webb (Bertie Wooster) and Christopher Ryan (Seppings)
Jason Thorpe (Jeeves), Robert Webb (Bertie Wooster) and Christopher Ryan (Seppings)
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Robert Webb will reprise his role in Olivier award-winning comedy Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense on the show's UK tour next year.

Webb will return to the role of Wooster, which he played in the West End earlier this year, alongside Jason Thorpe as his butler Jeeves and Christopher Ryan as Seppings, from February to June 2015.

The trio will be taking over from current incumbents John Gordon Sinclair (Jeeves), James Lance (Bertie Wooster) and Robert Goodale (Seppings). The show is directed by Sean Foley (The Ladykillers, I Can't Sing!).

The 2015 tour commences on 2 February visiting Shrewsbury, Oxford, Sheffield, Harrogate, Chichester, Birmingham, Canterbury, Belfast, Malvern, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Woking, Truro, Edinburgh, Salisbury, Leeds, ending in Cardiff on 13 June.