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Dangerous Corner

Tue 20, Thurs 22 Oct 2026
Production Company: The Edinburgh Makars
Status: Amateur Theatre
Audition dates: Tue 20 & Thur 22 Oct: 7pm.
Audition Venue: Makars Club Rooms, 13 Brunswick St Lane, EH7 5JG
Performance Dates: Thur 6 – Sat 8 May 2027 
Performance Venue: Church Hill Theatre.
JB Priestley’s first play. Robert and Freda Caplan are entertaining colleagues and guests at their country retreat. A chance remark ignites a series of devastating revelations, inexorably unraveling a hitherto undiscovered tangle of clandestine relationships and dark secrets, the disclosures of which have tragic consequences. At the play end, time springs back to the beginning of the evening: the remark not made, the secrets hidden, the “dangerous corner” avoided, and comfortable relationships continue…
Audition details: The auditions will be cold readings from script. Please email director Mark Wilson to let him know which day you will come: [email protected].
Script: The script is available to download and read here.
Characters:
Robert Caplan Senior: partner*. Self-confident, upright, stalwart, “principled” unimaginative – “a good specimen” –
Freda Caplan: his wife, strong willed “a vivacious woman” Her father, who founded firm, retired six months ago
Gordon Whitehouse: “a somewhat excitable youngster’ – younger partner*. Freda’s brother, his father, retired six months ago.
Betty Whitehouse: his wife, young, apparently carefree. Lively and bravely managing.
Charles Trevor Stanton: “rather studied, slightly sardonic manner” – third partner*. More recently worked his way up from starting as clerk
Olwen Peel: (F) valued long-term employee: independent, strong, self-contained.
Maud Mockridge: “A smart, middle-aged novelist” published by firm. Friend Stanton says she is a gossip — she agrees.
* three partners in publishing business.
Rehearsals: Twice per week March, April, May.
Makars website:  Click here.
Other details: If you are cast in the play, and you are not already a member of The Edinburgh Makars, you will need to join. Membership fee £28.

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