''Blind Alley'' is a 1926 play by the British author

Dorothy Brandon Dorothy Brandon was a British playwright active in the interwar years. Her greatest West End theatre, West End success was the 1923 medical drama ''The Outsider (play), The Outsider'' which was revived several times, and adapted into films on thre ...

. It is a drama about an unhappily married woman who begins to develop feelings for an actor. It premiered at the

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, as had her previous hit play '' The Outsider'', before transferring to the

Playhouse Theatre The Playhouse Theatre is a West End theatre in the City of Westminster, located in Northumberland Avenue, near Trafalgar Square, central London. The Theatre was built by F. H. Fowler and Hill with a seating capacity of 1,200. It was rebuilt in ...

in London's West End. However, it was considerably less successful than her earlier works and ran for only thirteen performances. The cast included

Elissa Landi Elissa Landi (born Elisabeth Marie Christine von Kühnelt; December 6, 1904 – October 21, 1948) was an Austrian-American actress born in Venice, who was popular as a performer in Hollywood, California, Hollywood films of the 1920s and 19 ...

Sam Livesey Samuel Livesey (14 October 1873 – 7 November 1936) was a Welsh stage and film actor. Life Livesey's father, Thomas, had been a railway engineer before leaving the industry to establish a travelling theatre with his wife Mary. The two had six ...

and

Annie Esmond Annie Esmond (27 September 1873 – 4 January 1945) was a British stage and film actress. Esmond was born in Surrey, England. She made her stage debut in pantomime in Sheffield in 1891 and later appeared on the American as well as British stage ...

.Wearing, J. P. ''The London Stage 1920-1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014, p.417.

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1926 plays Plays by Dorothy Brandon British plays West End plays {{1920s-play-stub