Jeeves & Wooster in ''Perfect Nonsense''

About P. G. WodehouseThe Goodale Brothers

Pelham (Plum) Grenville Wodehouse was born in Guildford in 1881. After leaving school he spent two years as a banker before switching careers to sports reporter and columnist at the Globe newspaper. Around this time he started writing short stories mainly for boys magazine The Captain before discovering his talent for comic dialogue. By 1910 he was reaching millions of readers all over the world and dividing his time between his homes in the US France and Britain. In his ninety-six years he wrote almost two hundred short stories plays articles song lyrics including working with Cole Porter on the musical Anything Goes and novels. He began writing the Jeeves and Wooster novels for which he is best known with The Man with Two Left Feet in 1917 followed by others such as Right Ho Jeeves (1934) The Code of the Woosters (1938) and Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves (1963) and finally Aunts Arent Gentlemen in 1974. His final years saw him constantly in and out of hospitals with a series of illnesses. He continued writing throughout leaving his final work Sunset at Blandings unfinished. He died of a heart attack in a hospital in Southampton Long Island on Valentines Day 1975. Like many siblings growing up together writers Robert and David Goodale enjoyed their own very particular brand of humour. As children they created a range of ridiculous characters that seamlessly evolved into members of their extended family. It was only later that they discovered that P.G. Wodehouse had beaten them to it in creating an entirely credible world full of even more deliciously bonkers characters. As adults entering the real world Robert became an actor while David pursued a career as a documentary film-maker but both remained committed to making people laugh. In 2010 they were encouraged to combine their comic talents to adapt P.G. Wodehouses The Code of the Woosters for the stage. They finally put pen to paper and several drafts later with the blessing of the Wodehouse Estate Perfect Nonsense was born.