Shaw Festival's Jeeves & Wooster: A serviceable but forgettable farce
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Aisling Murphy
Summary
A review of the Shaw Festival's production of "Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense," describing it as a serviceable but forgettable farce. The play offers amusing moments and brisk pacing but lacks lasting impact. While the physical comedy is top-notch, the overall production is characterized as a perfectly adequate way to spend a few hours without much staying power beyond the final curtain.
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bskyShaw Festival's Jeeves & Wooster: A serviceable but forgettable farcetheglobeandmail.comKey quotes
· 4 pulledThere's a certain kind of play that appears with some regularity in Ontario's summer theatres.
These plays are amusing but not often laugh-out-loud funny; they're brisk in pace, but seldom especially gripping in their storytelling.
In the moment, they're a perfectly adequate way to kill a few hours, but they don't tend to possess much staying power beyond the final curtain.
Top-notch physical hijinks aside, Jeeves & Wooster in Perfect Nonsense is a forgettable few hours of fun
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