Dorothy Brandon Explained

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

• Wild Heather (1917)
• Araminta Arrives (1921)
• The Outsider (1923)
• Blind Alley (1926)

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.

Notes and 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