Media Coverage
Raether packages everything nicely into 'Jeeves Intervenes'
Friday, August 20, 2010
Translating a short story into a play, adding some characters of her own and maintaining the flavor and verve of the original is exactly what Margaret Raether accomplished in her exhilarating "Jeeves Intervenes," the season opener at the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre on N. Broadway.
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Chamber Theatre offers valet service to open its season - OnMilwaukee.com
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Decades before television brought the term "situation comedy" into our vocabulary, P.G. Wodehouse was writing sitcoms as novels and short stories. The Englishman was a prolific author who also penned plays and lyrics for musicals during a career that spanned more than 70 years.
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'Jeeves Intervenes' with style at Milwaukee Chamber Theatre - Shepherd Express
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre opens its 2010-2011 season with Jeeves Intervenes, a light, precisely executed comedy based on characters created by P.G. Wodehouse.
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Chamber Theatre's Charmed Wodehouse - Milwaukee Magazine
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
In these days of comedy snark and short ideological fuses, P.G. Wodehouse is a welcome balm of wit and generosity.
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Chamber Theatre cast serves 'Jeeves' well - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Sunday, August 15, 2010
Although he insisted otherwise late in life, a younger and less guarded P.G. Wodehouse was open about the inherently theatrical quality of his stories and novels.
With its longstanding commitment to bringing page to stage, the Chamber Theatre is therefore ideally suited to mount playwright Margaret Raether's "Jeeves Intervenes," a loose adaptation of several Wodehouse stories featuring the foppish Bertie Wooster and his incomparable valet, Jeeves.
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Review Chamber Theatre's Jeeves Intervenes - ThirdCoast Digest
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Crises! A British bachelor faces an undesired engagement. His best friend is to be forcibly sent to India. The living room needs dusting.
Quick, ring for Jeeves!
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Chamber Theatre tries on Jeeves Intervenes - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Monday, August 9, 2010
Playing the world's most famous manservant means letting other people get the laughs.
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