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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Arifa Akbar

Wodehouse in Wonderland review – less than spiffing portrait of the artist as a light comedian

Robert Daws as the author in Wodehouse in Wonderland at Assembly George Square Studios, Edinburgh.
Plum role … Robert Daws as the author in Wodehouse in Wonderland at Assembly George Square Studios, Edinburgh. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/the Guardian

Robert Daws has lots of previous form on PG Wodehouse: he has played in various Jeeves and Woosters through the ages, with Hugh Laurie, Stephen Mangan and Ian Carmichael. So he is steeped in Wodehouse’s wonderland.

That shows in his ease with this one-man play about the comic writer. He is a natural as “Plum”, the affectionate name that Wodehouse went by. Premiering as a touring show some years ago, and directed by Robin Herford, it is well oiled enough if wooden and unadventurous in its storytelling.

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