"Jake's Women"
By Neil Simon

Directed by Donna Lubow
Producer - Jeri Solomon
Administrative Advisor - Sandy Sagan

Starring: Beth Goldberg, Molly Grabemann, Laurie Hartung, Laurren Henning, Denise Hoeflich, Kathie Howski, Emily Paul, Kalie Sagan, Steve Zeal

Performance Dates
July 16, 17, 23, 24 at 8:00 p.m.
July 18, 25 at 3:00 p.m.

Estonian House
14700 Estonian Lane, Riverwoods
(Milwaukee Ave., 1/4 Mile North of Deerfield Rd.)
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Tickets: $17
Seniors & Students: $15
Groups of 20 or more: call for rates

Box office: 847.604.1990

Theatre in the Woods is presenting Neil Simon's comedy, Jake's Women, as its annual summer production. Jake's Women portrays a New York writer grappling with issues that haunt him through imagined dialogue with the key women in his life--his estranged second wife, his daughter, his sister, his analyst, a date, and most importantly, the memory of his deceased first wife. It's a comedy, but it stings with truth.

Because he cannot let go of his relationship with his late wife and fix the relationship with his current wife, Jake calls on each of the women in his life, sometimes several at a time, to help him through his flaws and follies. They talk and argue with him. They often say what he wishes they would say, and then laugh or argue over how self-serving he has made them. Some women appear as real people, others as figments of his imagination.

The play is directed by Donna Lubow of Riverwoods and produced by Jeri Solomon of Northbrook and features Deerfield resident Steve Zeal as Jake. The women in Jake's life include Kathie Keefe Howski of Riverwoods, Beth Goldberg, Mollie Grabemann and Kalie Sagan of Deerfield, Denise Hoeflich of Glencoe, Laurren Henning of Northbrook, Emily Paul of Vernon Hills, and Laurie Hartung of Chicago.