When We Are Married By J B. Priestley

J. B. Priestley

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When We Are Married is J.B. Priestley's classic comedy about three couples who receive a rude shock in the midst of their joint silver wedding celebrations. In the heart of Northern England, three respectable couples, married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony. Or so they think.

As they are about to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary, they discover that they were never legally married. Social embarrassment is followed by a dawning awareness that their lives have been overturned. For the hen-pecked Herbert Soppitt, it provides the chance to assert himself against his domineering spouse. But for two of the women, it offers the prospect of liberation from stuffy and errant husbands.

Having opened this particular Ibsenite can of worms, however, Priestley quickly bangs the lid back on again, leaving the audience to wonder how Annie Parker, having acknowledged that her life partner is stingy, dreary, and 'idiotically conceited', can ever tamely return to the marital cage.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.