Dangerous Corner
Dangerous Corner Author: J. B. Priestley
First Performance: 1932, London
Published: 1932
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Drawing room of the Caplans’ country home, England, 1930s
Cast: 3m, 4f
Robert Caplan, a publisher, and his wife Freda have held a dinner party for Freda's brother and his wife, Gordon and Betty Whitehouse, a novelist Maud Mockridge, the publishing firm's secretary Olwen Peel, and the cynical Charles Stanton. The company begins to discuss whether truth should be told in any circumstances. Betty argues that life has many ‘dangerous corners’ and that it may be wiser to ‘let sleeping dogs lie’. Failing to find dance music on the radio, they pursue their discussion, and Robert is soon intent on uncovering the truth about his brother Martin's suicide. Martin supposedly committed...
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