I Have Been Here Before I Have Been Here Before I Have Been Here Before is a play by J. B. Priestley, first produced by Lewis Casson at the Royalty Theatre, London, on 22 September 1937. At a rural inn on a Yorkshire moor, three people become involved in a strange confrontation with the hallmarks of "déjà vu", and a physicist attempts to prevent a disaster. Sam and his daughter Sally, proprietors of the Black Bull Inn, are awaiting the arrival of guests when an elderly German professor stops to make enquiries. The inn is booked out; he asks unusual questions about the people staying
I Have Been Here Before Mr Farrant and Mrs Ormund leave, but Mr Ormund takes the blow calmly, realising that his life has been saved. The play was inspired by conjectures in P. D. Ouspensky's book "A New Model of the Universe" (1931). Ouspensky had already expressed these ideas in fiction with "Strange Life of Ivan Osokin" (1915, translated 1947). It was filmed for Australian TV in 1964. It was directed by Ken Hannam. I Have Been Here Before I Have Been Here Before is a play by J. B. Priestley, first produced by Lewis Casson at the Royalty Theatre, London, on 22 September 1937.