PERFECT Nonsense by name and perfect nonsense in theatrical style, this West End hit makes the perfect Wooster sauce.

It is a new play rooted in an old favourite, the Jeeves and Wooster partnership that still delights after all these years, as we celebrate the essential Englishness of PG Wodehouse.

Adapted for the stage by The Goodale Brothers, it has caught exactly the world of floundering fop Bertie and his unflappable butler, while relishing the joys of making manic, absurdist theatre with only a small cast. Elsewhere Lip Service's duo of Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding and Patrick Barlow's The 39 Steps have made great play of defying the numerical odds and so too did this new show's director, Sean Foley, in his days in The Right Size.

Now add Perfect Nonsense, whose comic set-up is that Bertie Wooster (Robert Webb, from Peep Show) has been egged on to enact his own story on stage.

How difficult can it be, this acting lark, he wonders, until calling urgently for Jason Thorpe's Jeeves to play Jeeves in a mad-rushing story of a country house weekend taking a turn for the worse, when Bertie is unwittingly called on to play matchmaker and steal a silver cow creamer from Totleigh Towers.

Webb's delightful Bertie will stay in blithely genial Bertie mode throughout, while Thorpe and Chris Ryan's Seppings will take on role after overlapping role between them, often having to try to play two characters at once. Such Wodehouse favourites as Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, Sir Watkin Bassett, Dahlia Travers, Roderick Spode and Constable Oates will keep Thorpe and Ryan breathlessly busy.

As important as the fizzing Wodehousian dialogue and comic interplay of the terrific trio is the endlessly inventive use of the revolve stage. Head-spinning perfect nonsense indeed.

Jeeves And Wooster in Perfect Nonsense, on tour at Harrogate Theatre, until Saturday; Leeds Grand Theatre, June 1 to 6. Box office: Harrogate, 01423 502116 or harrogatetheatre.co.uk; Leeds, 0844 848 2700 or leedsgrandtheatre.com