

Ouspensky's theory about individuals repeating their life cycles unless they can seize opportunities to free themselves from repeating past errors. You see, while the place looks as if much ever happens here, I Have Been Here Before is one of the prolific essayist-novelist-playwright's "time plays" ( Time of the Conways, The Inspector-General), a tea cozy mystery with a time-traveling twist inspired by Priestley's readings of the Russian philosopher P. The crimson walls are adorned with knickknacks and - most important to this play - four ticking and chiming clocks. The sitting room of the Inn presided over by Sally Platt (Robin Leslie Brown) and her father Sam Shipley (Edward Seamon), is furnished with comfortable easy chairs, book cases filled with books (probably lots of the "tea cozy" mysteries). Priestley's I Have Been Here Before which is currently at the Pearl Theater - the first New York production since a 20-performance run in 1938, a year after its London premiere. The professor warns them that they must now break the pattern.Want a respite from plays without intermissions, restraints about language and explicit sexual scenes, or carefully detailed realistic sets? You'll find just what you're looking for at the Black Bull Inn in North Yorkshire, the setting for J. They have played out their scene many times, always ending in suicide and poverty. His probing questions reveal that they are unhappy and confused.


A British wife, her elderly husband and her lover meet a German professor at an inn in Yorkshire. This play proposes that we repeat our lives constantly in a sort of spiral, but that we are able to change if we begin to understand the forces that govern us.
