Margin for Error (play)
| Margin for Error | |
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Flyer for the Broadway production | |
| Written by | Clare Boothe Luce |
| Date premiered | November 3, 1939 |
| Place premiered | Plymouth Theatre |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Satire |
Margin for Error is a two-act play written in 1939 by Clare Boothe Luce. It is a satire of Nazism, and was staged on Broadway shortly after World War II began in Europe. The plot is a whodunit about the murder of a German consul in the United States. The play was adapted as a movie of the same name in 1943.