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focuses on Robert
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The play marked a departure from the naturalistic dramas that had established
Priestley's reputation as a playwright, and at the time of its completion he considered it his finest and most ambitious work to date, describing it as his ‘adventure in theatre’. It reflects the author's interest in the
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was another amateur group to have performed the play, with Daniel
Sanderson taking the title role of Robert Johnson. Tom Priestley, the son of J.B. Priestley, came to see the performance and commented: "Brilliant, absolutely magnificent to see such talent and my dad would have been proud." In
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The BBC revived the play for television in
February 1965, with Ralph Richardson re-creating his original rôle. But the first professional revival in the theatre for over 50 years came in 2001 at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, where it was directed by Jude Kelly with
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December 2017, NLCS Jeju has also performed the play, for three days, from 5th to 7th, directed by
Yeongwoo Lee, Linus Kim, Hyun Hoi Koo, Skylar Shen, Jaehong Lim, and Judy Song, and the main leads who played Johnson are Judy Song, Jeyoon Eom and Skylar Shen.
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gave five performances of the play for the
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