The Good Companions Author:Edward Koblock, J. B. Priestley The Good Companions focuses on the trials and tribulations of a concert party between the World Wars. It was arguably Priestley's most famous novel, written in 1929, and the work which established him as a national figure. This 1931 stage adaptation was dramatized jointly by Edward Knoblock and the author in 1931.|3 women, 7 men