Summer Day's Dream
by J. B. Priestley
by J. B. Priestley
Summer’s Day Dream is a post-apocalyptic play by J.B. Priestley that explores the disruption of a rural family's life by representatives of the New World Order after a devastating nuclear war.
About The Play
About The Play
★★★★ The Guardian
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First performed in 1949, Summer’s Day Dream is set in the post apocalyptic future – 1975. Following a devastating nuclear war which has seen Britain bombed back into the pre-industrial past, Stephen Dawlish and his family live a quiet rural life. Until their quiet, agrarian existence is disrupted by the appearance of three representatives of the New World Order – an American, a Russian and an Indian – who have devastating plans that will end their new peaceful way of life forever…
Summer’s Day Dream is another Finborough Theatre rediscovery from J.B. Priestley, following the huge critical acclaim for the sell-out production and New York transfer of Priestley’s Cornelius, and the recent sell-out production of Laburnum Grove. This production marks its first London production since the original. It was also filmed for BBC TV in 1994 starring John Gielgud as Stephen Dawlish.