Time and the Conways
By J B Priestley
4 STARS 'An absorbing piece about families ..the nature of fate…FASCINATING. Mail on Sunday
4 STARS ‘A fine cast breathes fresh life into Priestley’s period piece.’ Sunday Telegraph
Watch a video on the Guardian website in which Michael Billington meets director Rupert Goold to see what JB Priestley's play has to say about today's world.
The Conways, celebrating Kay’s 21st birthday in 1919, seem a golden family – safe and well after the Great War, looking forward to future careers, marriages, and a brave new world. Through J B Priestley’s masterly manipulation of time, we see into their future and back again to where the seeds of their downfall were planted.
There’s a great devil in the universe, and we call it Time.
Priestley was fascinated by the study of time. Writing in 1937, he saw how Britain was complacently failing to learn from history and charging headlong towards another conflagration.
Time doesn’t destroy anything. It merely moves us on – in this life – from one peep-hole to the next.
The NT returns to Priestley for the first time since its ground-breaking production of An Inspector Calls.
Read about the play on Wikipedia
Audio described Performances Friday 24 July 7.30pm
Saturday 25 July 2.15pm
Touch Tour before the Performance Saturday 25 July 12.45pm
Captioned Performances Monday 27 July 7.30pm
A FULLY ILLUSTRATED PROGRAMME for Time and the Conways is on sale from the NT Bookshop and the Olivier Bookstall and from ushers at performance times. For a full contents list and to read an extract, click on programme extract.
Time and the Conways finished on: 16 August 2009
