JB PRIESTLEY'S first play is a kind of sinister Groundhog Day as he manipulates time and relationships in a 1920s drawing room.
And this Ian Dickens production is as fresh today as when the original appeared in 1932.
Robert (Tony O'Callaghan) and wife Freda (Georgina Sutton) are entertaining her brother Gordon (James Cawood) and sister-in-law Betty (Chloe Newsome) with friends Charles (Peter Amory) and Olwen (Nicola Wheeler).
They are all involved in Robert's publishing business and the play opens with one of the company's authors, Miss Mockridge, (Shirley Anne Field) mentioning Robert's brother Martin, who it transpires committed suicide a year earlier.
Miss Mockridge heads off for her bed but there is no sleep for the rest as Robert sets off on a quest for the truth and, like peeling an onion, relationships, friendships and lies are slowly laid bare as their six tangled lives are exposed.
