HINDSIGHT is a wonderful thing and it is used to poignant effect in J B Priestley's Time and the Conways.
A boisterous 21st birthday party for one of the Conway girls, held in a carefree post-Great War Britain in 1919, gives little indication of the troubled times ahead for the family.
Priestley jolts us forward to pre-Second World War Britain in 1938, when things are far from rosy for any of the characters, who harboured such hopes for their future happiness and contentment two decades earlier.
One by one, we see how external economic pressures and internal character flaws have taken their toll. No-one is immune, from widowed matriarch Mrs Conway (Penelope Keith) down to her daughters and sons. There are good performances all round.
It runs until this Saturday.
Review by PETER McMILLAN
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