![]() Their guests for the weekend are the single schoolteacher Mr Farrant (Daniel Souter) and the wealthy Mr and Mrs Ormund (David Schaal and Alexandra Dowling). ![]() Despite the best efforts of Anthony Biggs’ new production at the Jermyn Street Theatre, it never achieves more than a transient magnetism.Ī mysterious German, Doctor Görtler (Edward Halsted) arrives at a remote Yorkshire Inn, where the ageing landlord (Keith Parry) and his widowed daughter (Vicky Binns) scrub tables and sober up the local bar flies. ![]() ![]() One of Priestley’s three ‘time’ plays, exploring his fascination with the physics and philosophy of time, it draws on compelling – if dated – material but presents it awkwardly and inelegantly. His somewhat clumsily titled I Have Been Here Before has only received a handful of revivals since its premiere in 1937, but for good reason. Ask them to name another and they probably won’t be able to, which is bizarre really, considering Priestley was a notably prolific playwright whose work enjoyed great popular acclaim during his lifetime. Ask someone to name a JB Priestley play, and they’ll instantly say An Inspector Calls, probably because they studied it at GCSE. ![]()
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