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Do we really need to update JB Priestley? Jude Kelly made the mistake of doing it with Johnson Over Jordan; now Laurie Sansom has taken Priestley's famous first play from 1932 and set it among the present-day glitterati. And if it still works, it does so in spite of, rather than because of the transposition of period. What makes Dangerous Corner durable is Priestley's ingenuity. A group of high-fliers, here all part of a transatlantic publishing firm, are enjoying a weekend in the country home of Robert and Freda Caplan. Someone produces a musical cigarette-box that belonged to Robert's dead brother. A question arises over whether one of the guests, the faintly spinsterish Olwen, could ever have seen it before. Rashly pursuing the point, Robert uncovers a world of lies, theft and betrayal, spiced with drugs and gay passion. Finally, Priestley reverses time and shows what might have happened if the characters had simply let the music-box moment pass and shimmied to a radio dance band instead. Priestley himself rewrote the beginning for Broadway - a pity, since he sacrificed the neat idea of the characters sitting in the dark listening to a radio play called The Sleeping Dog. But Sansom compounds Priestley's error by retaining most of the play's original dialogue but updating the action. This subtly undermines Priestley's whole point: that behind the mask of 1930s upper-class respectability lay a world of reckless hedonism. There's something ludicrous about the idea that today's bright young media things would be remotely shocked by the disclosure of bonking, bisexuality or barbiturates - which is why, in the second act, unseemly titters erupted in the stalls. Sansom has forgotten that all plays are dated, in that they are the product of a particular moment. It's precisely that quality of historical authenticity that makes them interesting in the first place. But despite his best efforts to sabotage Priestley's old craft, the play still proves surprisingly seaworthy, largely because it uses a thriller format to explore the ever-pertinent question of how much truth we can take in our private lives. And though there's a disjunction between words and setting, there are striking performances from Rupert Penry-Jones as the over- inquisitive Caplan, Dervla Kirwan as the repressed Olwen, and Jacqueline Pearce as an intimidating US novelist, who looks like Falconetti's Joan of Arc landed in darkest Surrey. But this is one of those evenings where the play survives the production. Until April 6. Box office: 020-7494 5085.
What makes Dangerous Corner durable is Priestley's ingenuity. compounds Priestley's error by retaining most of the play's original dialogue.
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E-Flyer for the JB Priestley play " Dangerous Corner " performed at the Landor Theatre, London, in March 2009 starring; Freya Download it from Adobe. Features a sample of the original 1930's song "Can't we talk it over?
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Dangerous Corner has 74 ratings and 7 reviews. Laura said: From BBC Radio 4 Extra:A happy gathering of friends begin to probe events.
At their stylish country retreat, Freda and Robert Caplan host a dinner party for their colleagues and friends. Young, beautiful and succ...