Rope (play)
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It was first presented by the Repetory Players at the Strand Theatre, London, on 3rd March, 1929. The first West End production was at the Ambassadors' Theatre on 25th April, 1929.
The setting is an apartment in Mayfair, London, in the 1920s. The story, based loosely on the Leopold and Loeb murder case, is about two homosexual students, Wyndham Brandon and Charles Granillo (whom Brandon calls "Granno" for short), who murder fellow student Ronald Kentley as an expression of their supposed intellectual superiority.
The setting was transferred to 1940s New York, and the names of the murderers were changed to Brandon Shaw and Philip Morgan, in Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 film version.
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