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Time and the Conways: J.B. Priestley
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Greg wrote: "I just found a 1978 Penguin edition of 'Time and the Conways' by J.B. Priestley.Four plays:
Time and the Conways
I Have Been Here Before
The Linden Tree
An Inspector Calls
Back cover synopsis
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Time and the Conways is about to be revived on Broadway; I shall certainly go.
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That looks good Mike. I've just read An Inspector Calls, and can understand why it is so popular. I envy you seeing Time and the Conways.
Greg wrote: "That looks good Mike. I've just read An Inspector Calls, and can understand why it is so popular. I envy you seeing Time and the Conways."I'll let you know what it's like Greg! It's booking thru Nov 26 at the moment and tickets are reasonable value by Broadway standards.
I loved An Inspector Calls, which I had as a set book at school (over 50 years ago; I doubt if it would be now). It was a good film, too, with a very spooky Alastair Sim - remember that rocking chair at the end... The intriguing one that I've neither read nor seen is Johnson over Jordan, which I believe was revived in Yorkshire quite recently.
Four plays:
Time and the Conways
I Have Been Here Before
The Linden Tree
An Inspector Calls
Back cover synopsis
'Time and the Conways', a brilliantly successful experiment, shows us the same family in 1919 and 1937; the third and final act returns to the happy family party of 1919 to shed a bitter, ironical light on the youthful hopes of the characters.
'I Have Been Here Before', another 'time' play, is based on a theory of Time and Human Life as a recurring cycle. During a weekend in the Yorkshire dales, Dr Görtler, a mysterious refugee, tries to save a rich couple and a young schoolmaster from a tragic course of action.
'The Linden Tree', a Chekhov-like study of family relationships, finds the Lindens divided : Professor Linden at sixty-five could retire but is dedicated to teaching at a run-down provincial university. But his wife and rich son Rex have other ideas. . .
'An Inspector Calls', written inside a week in 1944, has become world-wide one of the most performed of all modern plays. Inspector Goole, investigating a girl's death, calls on the Birlings. Tension builds as he dissects the hidden vices and confusions behind the façade of this outwardly virtuous Edwardian household.