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Show Sponsor: Home Trust Bank
Directed by Angie Flynn-McIver
It’s 1927, the year of Charles Lindbergh’s solo flight across the Atlantic, the first transatlantic telephone call, the release of the first full-length “talking picture”, and Bertie Wooster once again finding himself suffering the slings and arrows of misfortune at the hands of his relatives. Caught between his fierce Aunt Agatha, his plaintive cousin Egbert, a saucy jazz singer, and his future father-in-law, hapless bachelor Bertie has only one place to turn: his ever-cool, inimitable valet. Another priceless predicament calling upon the redoubtable Jeeves to save the day.
“All in all, a top-notch evening at the theater.”
“…there can’t be many better tonics than a night of expertly produced comedy.”
-Asheville Stages
Margaret Raether first encountered P. G. Wodehouse in the form of a battered secondhand paperback of The Code of the Woosters when she was in college. This, as Bogart once famously observed, was “the beginning of a beautiful friendship.” A founding member of Artists’ Ensemble Theatre, most of Ms. Raether’s plays have debuted either at Artists’ Ensemble or at New American Theater, where she spent two seasons as Playwright in Residence. Her plays are pounded out late at night while peering around a cat that likes to sit in front of her monitor.
Ms. Raether’s trilogy of P. G. Wodehouse adaptations have been described as “bright and engaging as a garden party in May” (Chicago Tribune), “as dry as a well-made martini and equally potent” (Herald Tribune), and her writing “wonderfully captures the late British humorist’s renowned wit” (Seattle Times).
Onstage
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Offstage
Director: Angie Flynn-McIver
Production Stage Manager: Amelia Driscoll*
Scenic Design: Julie K. Ross
Lighting Design: Miguel Santiago
Costume Design: Tory Depew
Production Manager: Carrie Day
Technical Director: Mike Amico
Run Crew: Lindsey Moss
*- appearing through an agreement between this theatre and Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
