Professor Robert Linden is a history professor at the university in the provincial town of Burmanley. The structure is the main interest; Act III is ironic because we now know that possibilities won’t be fulfilled, hopes will be dashed.

Reading plays without having seen them performed live, is not always a pleasure, but Priestley manages to pull-off that trick, with some outstandingly clever exchanges between complex characters who break that fourth wall and have you wanting to join in and add your two penno'th, as he might well have said himself!After the war Priestley continued his writing, and his work invariably provoked thought, and his views were always expressed in his blunt Yorkshire style. Time and the Conways" and "I Have Been Here Before" belong to Priestley's 'time'plays, in which he explores the idea of precognition and pits fate against free will. Reincarnation and cyclic time all have been used as explanations for this phenomenon which modern science sees as an anomaly of memory. History that ignores the god and the altar is as false as history that could forget the sword and the wheel. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.

I Have Been Here Before' seamlessly incorporates a playfully serious hypothesis about the nature of Time into the action. John Boynton Priestley, the son of a schoolmaster, was born in Bradford in September 1894, and after schooling he worked for a time in the local wool trade. It all matters The wealthy Birling family are sitting down at dinner when a policeman knocks at the door, he wants to question them about the suicide of Eva Smith, the penniless working-class girl. In 1964, James Earl Jones won an Obie award for his portrayal of Othello, going on to play the Moor a further six times. You can see where a lot of the plot points are going to go in the third act but it doesn’t make it any less enjoyable to see play out.The Linden Tree also challenges preconceived ideas of history when Professor Linden comes into conflict with his family about how life should be lived after the war. Side note: In Act III, one of the characters has intimations of the future, as if she has glimpsed what’s to come. This modern play includes class conflict and differences, the selfishness of individuals, capitalism vs communism, and greed being the root of all problems. Time and the Conways' has a structural layout that really amplifies its poignancy in a manner that is remarkable. It should not be overlooked that Priestley was an outstanding essayist, and many of his short pieces best capture his passions and his great talent and his mastery of the English language.