The Shop at Sly Corner (play)

The Shop at Sly Corner is a 1945 thriller play by the British writer Edward Percy Smith.

The Shop at Sly Corner
Written by	Edward Percy Smith
Date premiered	11 April 1945
Place premiered	St Martin's Theatre, London
Original language	English
Genre	Thriller

An earlier version of the work had premiered at the Theatre Royal, Brighton in 1941 under the title of Play with Fire. The revised version was staged at St Martin's Theatre in London's West End where it enjoyed a lengthy run of 863 performances between 11 April 1945 and 3 May 1947. Actors appearing at various stages in the original West End production included Victoria Hopper, Jean Colin, Joyce Heron, Cathleen Nesbitt, Viola Lyel, Kenneth Kent, Henry Oscar, Jack Vyvyan, Kenneth Griffith, Cyril Chamberlain and Deryck Guyler. Despite its London success, the play was a flop when it opened at the Booth Theatre in New York's Broadway, lasting for only 7 performances.

Film adaptation

In 1947 it was adapted into a British film of the same title directed by George King and starring Oskar Homolka, Muriel Pavlow and Derek Farr.

Bibliography

• Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
• Wearing, J.P. The London Stage 1940-1949: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.