Johnson Over Jordan

Johnson Over Jordan is a play by J.B. Priestley.

Johnson Over Jordan focuses on Robert Johnson, a meek businessman who has recently died. Now in limbo, Johnson looks back over his life while trying to reach the Inn at the End of World. On the way, he encounters the Central Offices of Universal Assurance and Global Loan and Finance Corporation and the Jungle Hot Spot nightclub.

The play marked a departure from the naturalistic dramas that had established Priestley's reputation as a playwright, and at the time of its completion he considered it his finest and most ambitious work to date, describing it as his ‘adventure in theatre’. It reflects the author's interest in the time theories of J. W. Dunne and P. D. Ouspensky, as well as Carl Jung’s model of the unconscious.[1]