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Time and the Conways

  • J.B. Priestley
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1930s, 1910s / WWI
  • 4M, 6F
  • ISBN: 9780573014468

The Conways are having a party to celebrate Kay's twenty-first birthday.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1930s, 1910s / WWI
  • Target Audience: Adult
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • College Theatre / Student, Professional Theatre
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.

Premiere Production:

Time and the Conways premiered at the Duchess Theatre in London in August 1937.

Time and the Conways began preview performances on Broadway with The Roundabout Theatre Company in the Autumn of 2017, in a production directed by Rebecca Taichman, and starring Elizabeth McGovern. Time and the Conways returned to Broadway for the first time since its premiere in 1938.

Characters

  • Casting: 4M, 6F
  • Casting Attributes: Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)

  • MRS. CONWAY
    ALAN
    MADGE
    ROBIN
    HAZEL
    KAY
    CAROL
    JOHN HELFORD
    ERNEST BEEVERS
    GERALD THORNTON

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    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, seeds 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.

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