Jeeves in Bloom at First Folio Theatre

Chicago Reader - Recommended

"...Adapted by Margaret Raether, this show finds Wodehouse's best-known creations, the nearly perfect valet Jeeves and his comically flawed employer Bertie Wooster, getting entangled in various situations romantic and financial while visiting Wooster's Aunt Dahlia. Christian Gray is a beguiling Wooster, playing well off Jim McCance's slightly too old Jeeves. The evening is diverting, if protracted--a little of this light, jazz-age comedy goes a long way."

ChicagoCritic - Highly Recommended

"...This is high comedy, high theatricality, and high stage craft that all blend together to become a most pleasant and artful evening of pure escapist entertainment. If you cherish zany, well-crafted British comedy–then get to First Folio Theatre to witness a terrific and uproarious ensemble piece. You’ll laugh plenty. What a great cast! What fun!"

Chicago Stage and Screen - Highly Recommended

"...Jeeves has made the move from the small indoor library to the larger chapel space at the Mayslake Peabody Estate, and it's a spectacular leap. From the first site of Angela Miller's exceptional set design, you'll feel as if you've wandered into an authentic English country garden replete with foliage, statuary and a working fountain. What better setting to find P.G. Wodehouse's irrepressible characters? Margaret Raether's adaptation of "Jeeves Intervenes" was such a hit for First Folio in 2008 that it seemed all but guaranteed we would be seeing more of that paragon of inept charm Bertie Wooster and his ever resilient gentleman's gentleman Jeeves. Fortunately, Christian Gray and Jim McCance are still around to play them, and under Alison C. Vesely's spirited direction, they have never been more fun."

Chicago Theater Beat - Recommended

"...In the opening scene of First Folio Theatre’s Jeeves in Bloom, the characters pursue each other around the garden set in a goofy, stylized chase scene so exaggerated it made me want to run out of the theater. The broad, affected campiness Director Alison C. Vesely has imposed on this Equity production really put me off at first, but after a while, the show began to grow on me."