I've never read any plays by P.G. Wodehouse before. It's interesting to think about how his style would adapt to the stage. These four comedic plays are definitely as funny as his novels and short stories. You just have to imagine people acting them out. ( )

These plays, all light comedies, were written and performed in the mid-twenties to 1930, except for the last, "Come On, Jeeves", which gives no date of writing or performance. Interesting to see that Joan Hickson, who would be the most intimidating Miss Marple fifty years later, played a disapproving club employee in "Leave It To Psmith" in 1930. She must have had that sort of face even as a young girl!

I love Wodehouse, especially Jeeves and Wooster, but these plays do suffer somewhat from a silliness that modern audiences just wouldn't appreciate. There are bits of the Wodehouse snarkiness to be found, but romance, confusion and mistaken identities are the main focus. ( )