DRAMATIC THRILLER

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 3, 10 March 1947, Page 5

DRAMATIC THRILLER

“DANGEROUS CORNER” Staging the dramatic thriller “Dangerous Corner” for the first time, the Whitehall Productions Company scored an instantaneous success before a crowded house—vide Christchurch Star-Sun of 3/2/47: “The play by J. B. Priestley had received considerable acclaim on the London stage and lost none of its dramatic intensity at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night. The action of the play was continuous, but it was broken into three acts, each of the first two ending on a highly dramatic note, which left the audience restless for the next scenes, which gradually built up the ending—the sound of a shot—which also introduced the play.

‘Opening in the lounge of a country, home, with the members of a small dinner party surmising on the preceding chapters of a radio serial which had just concluded with the distrait husband shooting himself.. The play reached the “Dangerous < Corner” when it was decided that everyone in the party should tell the whole truth of a previous incident in their lives of the six characters: become more and more entangled, until each one has been stripped of all on which his or her life had been built. Suspense was maintained Until the same ending as the radio ' play had achieved and the distrait husband, with all his illusions shattered, had shot himself. A quick switchback to the point where the play began and the procedure of the party had been carried on normally without rounding the “Dangerous Corner” drove home the point of the . - production. Christchurch theatregoers should and will be extremely grateful to Whitehall Productions for bringing such a clever show and the delightful performances given by. each member of the strong cast.” The Company appear at the Grand Theatre on Thursday, March 20. Box - plan is at Armstrong’s.