Release Message:  In 1919 Britain, Mrs. Conway (Elizabeth McGovern) is full of optimism during her daughterÕs lavish twenty-first birthday celebration. The Great War is over, wealth is in the air, and the familyÕs dreams bubble over like champagne. Jump nineteen years into the future, though, and the ConwaysÕ lives have transformed unimaginably. Starring Elizabeth McGovern.

Description:  A British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne's Theory of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937. Widely regarded as one of the best of Priestley's so-called 'Time Plays', a series of pieces for theatre which played with different concepts of Time (the others including I Have Been Here Before, Dangerous Corner and An Inspector Calls) it continues to be revived in the UK regularly. Time and the Conways is in three acts. The first act is set in the Conway house in 1919 on the night of the birthday of one of the daughters, Kay. Act Two moves to the same night in 1937 and is set in the same room in the house. Act Three then returns to 1919 seconds after the Act One left off.