Jeeves in Bloom

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This play, by P.G. Wodehouse, is the second in the trilogy that the Theatre in the round has produced. Many of the actors in this play reprise their roles from the first. The play is an English farce wherein the peaceful English countryside may never be the same after Bertie Wooster (Aaron Henry) and his unflappable valet, Jeeves (John Adler), pay a visit. What starts as a plan to pair tongue-tied, amphibian-loving Augustus Fink-Nottle (Dietrich Poppen) and fanciful, poetry-loving Madeline Basset (Laura Weiher) quickly goes awry. Soon, Bertie is fending off Madeline's amorous advances, reluctantly participating in an attempted burglary, and fleeing attacks from a homicidal French chef (Joel Raney, in his role as the quirky Anatole The Chef, gives his usual spot-on performance). With the stakes this high, the solution must lie with the one and only Jeeves!