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==Selected plays==
==Selected plays==
* ''[[Wild Heather (play)|Wild Heather]]'' (1917)
* ''[[Wild Heather (play)|Wild Heather]]'' (1917)
* ''George Dewhurst'' (1921)
* ''Araminta Arrives'' (1921)
* ''[[The Outsider (play)|The Outsider]]'' (1923)
* ''[[The Outsider (play)|The Outsider]]'' (1923)
* ''Blind Alley'' (1926)
* ''Blind Alley'' (1926)

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Dorothy Brandon was a British playwright active in the interwar years. Her greatest West End success was the 1923 medical drama The Outsider[1] which was revived several times, and adapted into films on three occasions.[2]

An earlier hit was 1917's Wild Heather which ran at the Strand Theatre for 79 performances.[3] It was also made into a film.[4] A 1926 play Blind Alley was less successful, running for thirteen performances.[5]

Selected plays

References

  1. ^ Wearing The London Stage 1920-1929. p.231-32
  2. ^ Goble p.899
  3. ^ Gale p.198
  4. ^ Goble p.1017
  5. ^ Gale p.206

Bibliography

  • Gale, Maggie. West End Women: Women and the London Stage 1918 - 1962. Routledge, 2008.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Wearing, J. P. The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.