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Shall We Join the Ladies?: A Play in One Act
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781025978895
Publisher: Tradd Street Press
Published: Feb 14 2026
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.07 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Shall We Join the Ladies? is a masterful one-act play that blends drawing-room comedy with chilling suspense. The story unfolds during an elegant dinner party hosted by Sam Smith, who informs his twelve guests that they are all suspects in the mysterious death of his brother at Monte Carlo several years prior. As the evening progresses, Smith reveals that he has gathered them specifically to identify the killer through a series of psychological provocations and subtle accusations.
The play is renowned for its taut atmosphere and its refusal to provide a conventional resolution, leaving the audience to grapple with the unsettling ambiguity of the characters' guilt. J. M. Barrie, while widely celebrated for his more whimsical works, demonstrates his versatility as a dramatist by crafting a narrative that exposes the fragility of upper-class decorum when confronted with the specter of crime. This work remains a significant example of early twentieth-century mystery drama, celebrated for its sharp dialogue and its expert construction of tension within a single, confined setting. It is an essential read for those interested in the evolution of the whodunit genre and the psychological complexities of the human conscience.
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