An Inspector Calls

Priestley's classic play of the believable middle-class Yorkshire family called to account for its moral crimes by the enigmatic Inspector Goole stands as a metaphor for our own failure to accept our responsibility to others.

A Glass of Bitter

A play in one act by J.B. Priestley

Mother's Day

A humorous portrayal of how mothers are treated in a family.

The Rose and Crown

The first of Priestley’s published one-act plays. The setting is the public bar of The Rose and Crown, a small pub in North-East London, one evening in early autumn. Into the bar comes an assortment of working-class characters who, with one notable exception, are fed up with life.

Time and the Conways

The Conways are having a party to celebrate Kay's twenty first birthday. At the party Kay, with frightening clarity, sees her family twenty years in the future.

Bright Shadow

The retired Colonel, his niece Lesley, and his friend the Major - a retired army medical officer - are living, to all intents and purposes, a happy, quiet life together in the Colonel's country home. 

When We Are Married

Hilarity and pandemonium break out when three long-married couples – respected pillars of society – discover that the parson who married them was not authorized to do so... meaning they have been living in sin for 25 years.

Private Rooms

A one act comedy in the Viennese style.

In a restuarant, about the year 1900, a vain but ageing actor, Max, who still believes he can dazzle a pretty young dancer, hopes to make love to the innocent and romantic Elsa. At the same time, Julia, an actress who has left her youth behind but is still not entirely without allure, is entertaining a young playwright, Florian, who believes- or pretends to believe - that he is being wined and dined merely to talk about his new play.

A Summer's Day Dream

A Severed Head

Cornelius

"So all the time, while you were pretending to work, you've been having the most astonishing adventures in that corner?"

A forgotten masterpiece from one of Britain's greatest dramatists, J.B. Priestley.

Dangerous Corner

Robert Caplan and his wife are entertaining her brother and sister-in-law, Olwen Peel and Charles Stanton – all of whom are associated with Robert in a publishing business. Because Robert insists on uncovering the truth about his brother Martin’s “suicide”, many unpalatable revelations ensue.

Desert Highway

During a campaign in the Middle East, six men are lost in the Syrian desert, owing to the breakdown of their tank. They are Ben Joseph, the thoughtful Jewish sergeant; Donnington, a university man and a cynic; the Cockney, Elvin, an old soldier; Shaw, a solemn Yorkshireman; Hughes, an excitable Welshman; and young George, from a farm.

Eden End

Stella Kirby spent nine years running away; leaving home to find her freedom as an actress. Now she has decided that the only role left to play is the prodigal daughter returned, hoping to discover herself amongst the familiar surroundings of her childhood home, Eden End.

Ever Since Paradise

Described by Priestley as 'A Discursive Entertainment, chiefly referring to Love and Marriage in Three Acts'.

I Have Been Here Before

A success in London and New York, this play is proposes that we repeat our lives constantly in a sort of spiral, but are able to change if we understanding of the forces that govern us. A British wife, her elderly husband and her lover meet a German professor at an Inn in Yorkshire. His probing…

Laburnum Grove

George Radfern lives a quiet, uneventful life near London, burdened by sponging relatives and his prospective son-in-law. When George quietly announces he's a leader of a counterfeit ring, the sponges find reasons to leave. His immediate family reacts according to character until it looks as if Ge…

Long Mirror, The

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 his life before actually meeting him.

Mystery at Greenfingers

A snowstorm traps a group of guests and crew into the Greenfingers Palace Hotel. A detective is sent to the hotel to investigate a top secret crime, but it is Miss Tracey and new hostess who solve everything.

The Linden Tree

This new work by England's famed play-right has become his longest run play. The Linden Tree was produced in New York at the Music Box Theatre starring Boris Karloff.

The Roundabout

This script is available as a downloadable perusal PDF.
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The Scandalous Affair of Mr Kettle and Mrs Moon

On his way to work at the bank one morning, the manager Mr Kettle freaks out. He goes back home changes into his casual clothes and sets about enjoying himself. No one apart from Mrs Kettle can understand him and why he is behaving in this way. Mrs Kettle joins him in his rebellion. The bank officials employ a doctor to hypnotise Mr Kettle and get him back to his former self.

They Came to a City

Just before dawn the play's characters - who represent every stratum of society - come to the wall overlooking a strange city whose gate is shut against them. At daybreak they are admitted and towards the end of the day some have found it to be the i…

Try It Again

A one act play by J.B. Priestley.