King's Theatre, Greenock

The Era, 10 and 17 January 1917, listed The Man Who Stayed at Home (Blue) as On The Road from 15 January at the King’s, Greenock. ‘“The Man who Stayed at Home” pays a welcome visit to Greenock next week at the King’s Theatre, and will be looked forward to with great interest. It is a strong as well as an amusing play dealing with the absorbing interesting spy question, and is indeed the play of the moment. There have been a good many plays written upon war subjects during the past year, but none have achieved the success of Lechmere Worrall and J. E. Harold Terry’s Comedy. Produced at the Royalty Theatre, London, on December 10th, 1914, it achieved instantaneous success because it is thrilling and at the same time amusing. It deals with the burning question of Foreign Spies on the East Coast. It reflects the Empire of to-day. It appeals to young and old alike, to civilian as much as to soldier. The devices used by the spies are drawn from what has actually occurred. Although it deals with war time there is no suggestion of the horrors of war. Theatre-goers have seldom had the opportunity of witnessing such an interesting play, as “The Man Who Stayed at Home”‘ (Port-Glasgow Express, 12 January 1917).