The Shop at Sly Corner

About the show

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