page_title: The Circle (play)
hierarchical_section_title: The Circle (play)
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the Broadway production of the 1921 play The Circle, by W. Somerset Maugham Caption reads as follows:SCENE IN W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM'S COMEDY "THE CIRCLE"Act I. Lady Kitty (Mrs. Leslie Carter), not having seen her son for thirty years, naturally mistakes Teddie for her own offspring, on whom she turns her back Cast (from left): Robert Rendel, John Drew, Estelle Winwood, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Maxine MacDonald, John Halliday
context_page_description: The Circle: a Comedy in Three Acts is a play by W. Somerset Maugham. It was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London on 3 March 1921, and has been revived several times in the West End and on Broadway.
  The play, which caused some outrage among a small minority of playgoers at the time of the premiere, depicts a young married woman contemplating leaving her husband for another man, and looking to an elderly peer and his partner, who eloped thirty years earlier, for advice.
context_section_description: The Circle: a Comedy in Three Acts is a play by W. Somerset Maugham. It was first produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London on 3 March 1921, and has been revived several times in the West End and on Broadway.
  The play, which caused some outrage among a small minority of playgoers at the time of the premiere, depicts a young married woman contemplating leaving her husband for another man, and looking to an elderly peer and his partner, who eloped thirty years earlier, for advice.
caption: 1921 Broadway cast, L-R: Robert Rendel, John Drew, Estelle Winwood, Mrs. Leslie Carter, Maxine MacDonald, and John Halliday
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