With around thirty novels, J.B. Priestley is a major twentieth-century novelist. His reputation as a dramatist, essayist and general man of letters has tended to obscure his solid and highly…

The widely performed and prolific Priestley experimented with many forms in his long career as a playwright, moving adeptly from expressionism to farce to political drama. This volume includes: When…

A trilogy of formally innovative plays written between 1938 to 1940, linked by their fascination with twin strands of Music and Time, and shadowed by the outset of World War…

The Long Mirror recounts the meeting between a composer and a young woman who seems to have been telepathically connected to him for some time, and has experienced much of…

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Once passionate about the theatre, playwright Martin Cheveril is now disillusioned and contemplating a change of career. His new play, a bitter and cynical piece, is about to premiere when…

In the months before the First World War, Richard Herncastle joins his Uncle’s illusionist act on the Music Hall stage where he comes into contact with larger than life, garish…

A forgotten play by JB Priestley. Last seen at the Duke of York’s Theatre in the West End in 1977, starring Arthur Lowe, this edgy comedy was revived in London…