Margin for Error (play)

Margin for Error
Flyer for the Broadway production
Written byClare Boothe Luce
Date premieredNovember 3, 1939 (1939-11-03)
Place premieredPlymouth Theatre
Original languageEnglish
GenreSatire

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.