Hatti Morahan, Framed Time and The Conways, J.B.Priestley Play, Signed Flyer 2009

A FRAMED HATTI MORAHAN, TIME AND THE CONWAYS, J.B.PRIESTLEY PLAY, SIGNED FLYER. 26 JUNE - AUGUST 16 2009

FLYER SIGNED IN PERSON AT THE NATIONAL THEATRE, LONDON

"Rupert Goold’s National Theatre debut comes in the form of JB Priestley’s three-act play which asks unanswerable questions about the extent of our ability to control our own future.

Priestley’s interest in the nature of time fuelled the writing of this play in 1937, in which he explores the idea that our present and our future exist simultaneously, rather than one being an unalterable consequence of the other. He wraps up this notion in the story of the wealthy Conway family, whom we meet in 1919 as daughter Kay is celebrating her 21st birthday with a night of parlour games in the family home, along with her mother and siblings. Life is rosy; son Robin has just left the army and returned home, and each of the four Conway daughters has reason to believe in a bright future. Only their bookish, stuttering brother Alan (Paul Ready) seems fixed in the present, rather than yearning for the rewards of the future. But at the end of act one, Hattie Morahan’s Kay has a vision of the life that awaits them, and it is considerably less palatable than they like to imagine." NATIONAL THEATRE