By Margaret Raether
Directed by Michael Goldberg
Featuring Christian Gray, Jim McCance, and Lydia Berger Gray

November 2 – December 4, 2022

To open our final season, First Folio brings back our very first adventure of Bertie and Jeeves from 2008. The pleasure-seeking and marriage-averse Bertie is desperately trying to avoid his dragon-lady Aunt Agatha or “she who chews broken bottles; she who kills rats with her teeth.” In tow with Bertie’s aunt is Gertrude Winkleswoth-Bode, the society special Agatha has chosen to tame her wayward nephew. However, when Bertie’s impecunious pal, Eustace Bassington-Bassington becomes smitten with Gertie, Jeeves sees a pathway to avoid disaster…providing they can also avoid a battle-ax Scottish uncle, Sir Rupert Watlington-Pipps. Filled with all of the sly word play and manic antics you’ve come to expect, this is the pitch-perfect Jeeves story we all need to escape the doldrums of our own lives.

“It’s a champagne cocktail of a show, as bright and engaging as a garden party in May!”
Kerry Reid – Chicago Tribune

“A two-hour snort of pure giggle gas!”
Catey Sullivan – The Pioneer Press

“As dry as a well-made martini and equally potent!”
Barbara Vitello – The Daily Herald