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Time and the Conways
Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 4m
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.
Image: 2017 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Jeremy Daniel)
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Cast Size
6w, 4m -
Target Audience
Adult
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Summary
The Conways are having a party to celebrate Kay's twenty first birthday. Kay hopes to be a novelist. Hazel, the beauty, anticipates a romantic marriage. Madge wants to reform the world and marry the dashing young family lawyer. Carol, the baby of the family, spreads good cheer while Robin, back from war, is certain to have a good career. Alan is content to be an armchair philosopher. The nitwit mother has high hopes for them all. At the party Kay, with frightening clarity, sees her family twenty years in the future. They are petty, mean, and unfulfilled. Only Kay and her calm brother realize time is relative and there is something fine and worthwhile beyond.
History
Time and the Conways premiered at the Duchess Theatre in London in August 1937.
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Performing Groups
- Time Period 1930s, 1910s/WWI
- Setting The sitting room of Mrs. Conway's home. 1919
- Features Period Costumes
Media
“An ambitious, vexing, multilayered drama.” — The New York Times
Photos
Image: 2017 Roundabout Theatre Company Production (Jeremy Daniel)
Licensing & Materials
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Authors
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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