I Have Been Here Before
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 27, 2005
Closed Mar 27, 2005
Opened Feb 27, 2005
Closed Mar 27, 2005
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The popular English novelist and dramatist, J. B. Priestley, was fascinated by the notion of parallel time. I Have Been Here Before is a seldom-produced gem that dramatizes the possibility that what happens here and now has happened before and will happen again. Priestley's greatest achievement, perhaps, is always to provide a colorful, engaging, forward-moving mystery story as a vehicle for his provocative hypothesis, and never to sacrifice the drama to the theory. Even more important, the notion of parallel time, whether you buy the argument or not, raises inescapable questions about ethics, choices, and purpose. While England wrestled with its choices of what, if anything, it must do vis-a-vis Nazi Germany, it is no wonder that Priestley, deep thinker and masterful dramatist, felt compelled to consider how it is we choose our paths in the dimension we call time, and what we might do otherwise.
Appropriate for audiences 12 and up.
There is no Thursday performance on March 17.
There is no performance on Thursday, Feb 3.
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According to Albert Einstein, time is relative. As far as I know, the Princeton-campus genius never said anything about the relativity of plays, but they're relative as well -- to the time in which they're written. Take J.B. Priestley's works, three of which picked up on Einstein-influenced attitudes about time being curved -- maybe circular -- rather than linear. Sixty-plus years on, these plummy works feel like parlor games; Priestley's handling of time's plastic qualities registers more as the stuff of a magician's legerdemain than as a purposeful dramatist's concerns.
But Priestley wasn't kidding about the nature of time when he took it on, and it probably helps when watching his dra[...]