Dangerous Corner

Synopsis

On an evening in 1932 Robert and Freda Caplan host a dinner party for their colleagues and friends, all executives at a transatlantic publishing company. Young, beautiful and successful they have the world at their feet. Then a cigarette box and an ill-considered remark spark off a relentless series of revelations and other, more dangerous secrets are painfully exposed. As the truth spills out about the suicide of Robert's clever, reckless brother, and the group's perfect lives begin to crumble, the cost of professional and social success becomes frighteningly plain.

Our Review:

16 November 2001

In recent times, the Garrick has become almost synonymous with JB Priestley. For nearly six years up until April 2001, the theatre was home to Stephen Daldry's multi award-winning production of Priestley's An Inspector Calls (reopened at the Playhouse). And now, after a brief interlude, it's clutching Priestley to its bosom once again.

This time it's the turn of the playwright's much earlier work, Dangerous Corner, coming via Leeds' West Yorkshire Playhouse. In many ways, this 1932 thriller shares much in common with Inspector, which Priestley wrote in 1946. A bunch of well-to-do's are gathered for a party when the spectre of a suspect death arises to implicate them all in a series of vicious revelations, truths and untruths. Storyline aside, the young director Laurie Sansom also brings to mind the earlier production by borrowing some Daldryesque touches - the canned party laughter before curtain-up, for instance.

But there...

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83.67.119.5) - 31 August 2006:

i have only ever heard "dangeruos corner", as a radio play some years ago, and then it didn't matter that you couldn't 'see' the people the characters were talking about, ...

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