The Letter (play)
1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Letter is a 1927 play by W. Somerset Maugham, dramatised from a short story that first appeared in his 1926 collection The Casuarina Tree. The story was inspired by the real-life Ethel Proudlock case which involved the wife of the headmaster of Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur who was convicted in a murder trial after shooting dead a male friend in April 1911. She was eventually pardoned.
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Date premiered | 24 February 1927 (1927-02-24)[1] |
Place premiered | Playhouse Theatre, London |
Original language | English |
Setting | A plantation in the Malay Peninsula, and Singapore |
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