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Eden End

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  4w, 3m

J.B. Priestley

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.

Eden End

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    4w, 3m
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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. Priestley had a special tenderness for Eden End and for it he created some of his most fragile, gentle characters. The stoical Dr Kirby, his younger son Wilfred, desperate to prove himself a man of the world, and Lilian, the daughter who stayed at home are a sharply observed and instantly recognisable family, with all its dreams and disappointments. 
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  • Time Period Contemporary
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J.B. Priestley

J.B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley (1894 - 1984) was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, son of a schoolmaster. He left Belle Vue School at 16 and worked in a wool office, beginning to write in his spare time. He volunteered for the army in 1914 and served throughout the First World War, surviv ...
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