I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE Jermyn Street Theatre

J B Priestley’s play, written in 1937 and rarely revived, is not a patch on his other Time plays, Time and the Conways and Dangerous Corner. A mysterious German professor (Edward Halsted, very creepy), a Jewish exile, arrives at an inn in the Yorkshire moors and seems to know what is going to happen. A man and his wife and her would-be lover find themselves helplessly trapped in a recurring cycle of events. Can they break the spell and so avert a tragedy waiting to happen? The play may be “mystical rubbish” but it should be uncanny and urgent; instead it’s prosaic and plodding.