A Damsel in Distress

When Maud Marsh flings herself into George Bevan's cab in Piccadilly, he starts believing in damsels in distress. George traces his mysterious travelling companion to Belpher Castle, home of Lord Marshmoreton, where things become severely muddled. Maud's aunt, Lady Caroline Byng, wants Maud to marry Reddie, her stepson. Maud, meanwhile, is known to be in love with an unknown American she met in Wales. So when George turns up speaking American, a nasty case of mistaken identity breaks out. In fact the scene is set for the perfect Wodehouse comedy of errors.

P. G. Wodehouse (1881 1975) spent much of his life in Southampton, New York, but was born in England and educated in Surrey. He became an American citizen in 1955. In a literary career spanning more than seventy years, he published more than ninety books and twenty film scripts, and collaborated on more than thirty plays and musical comedies.

Jonathan Cecil (1939 2011) was a vastly experienced actor, appearing at Shakespeare s Globe as well as in such West End productions as "The Importance of Being Earnest", "The Seagull", and "The Bed before Yesterday". He toured in "The Incomparable Max", "Twelfth Night", and "An Ideal Husband", while among his considerable television and film appearances were "The Rector s Wife", "Just William", "Murder Most Horrid", and "As You Like It".