| The Man Who Stayed at Home | |
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| Characters | Christopher Brent (title character) |
| Date premiered | 10 December 1914 |
| Place premiered | Royalty Theatre, London |
| Series | The Man Who Went Abroad (1917) |
| Subject | WWI espionage |
| Genre | Comedy Detective Thriller |
| Setting | South-east England, 1914 |
The Man Who Stayed at Home is a play by J. E. Harold Terry and Lechmere Worrall. First performed in 1914, the play is set during the First World War and tells the story of a group of German spies in South East England and the British agent who thwarts their undercover operation. It ran for over a year and a half in London and became one of the longest running plays of the period. It was also performed in Australia and New Zealand, and in North America where it was known as The White Feather. There were two film versions of the play, the first in 1915 and the other in 1919.[1]