 By Jeeves
Book & lyrics by Alan Ayckbourn; Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Based on the Jeeves stories by P.G. Wodehouse
First performed at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, May 1 1996
First performed at the Duke of York's Theatre, London - July 2, 1996
Synopsis
By Jeeves adopts the village-hall show-within-a-show
format. Bertie, having mislaid his banjo, rounds up the usual suspects
and narrates an impromptu tale of thwarted love and mistaken identity
under the direction of Jeeves.
In the show we have vintage Lloyd Webber in the delightful Stinker and
his would-be fiancée Stiffy, vintage Ayckbourn with the ladder
gag and a confusion of handshaking which is close to the essence of Wodehouse
farce.
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