Dangerous Corner
by J. B. Priestley
I need you to tell me whether the conclusion of this play involves time travel or not. I
claim it does. But regardless of that, it’s worth reading Priestley’s first play,
which follows the dire consequences of a chance remark at the start of Act I. The play
was also filmed as a 1934 screenplay and later as a Yorkshire Television Production.
For the last few seconds the light has been fading, now it is completely dark. There is a
revolver shot, a woman’s scream, a moment’s silence, then the sound of a woman
sobbing, exactly as at the beginning of Act I.
Dangerous Corner by J. B. Priestley, at the Lyric
Theatre (London, 17 May 1932).