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Inspector Calls, An

  • J.B. Priestley
  • Full Length Play, Drama, 1910s / WWI
  • 4M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573012051

Priestley's classic play stands as a metaphor for our own failure to accept our responsibility to others.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: 1910s / WWI
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set
Priestley's classic play of the believable middle-class Yorkshire family called to account for its moral crimes by the enigmatic Inspector Goole stands as a metaphor for our own failure to accept our responsibility to others. 

Stunningly revived by the Royal National Theatre in 1992, the production transferred to the West End the following year.

Premiere Production:

An Inspector Calls was first performed in 1945 in the USSR in two theatres (Kamerny Theatre in Moscow and Comedy Theatre in Leningrad).
The play had its first British production in 1946 at the New Theatre, London.

  • Casting: 4M, 3F

  • INSPECTOR GOOLE - a mysterious interrogator
    SHEILA BIRLING - eldest child of the Birling's
    ERIC BIRLING - younger son of the Birling's
    ARTHUR BIRLING - husband of Sybil, father of Sheila and Eric
    SYBIL BIRLING - wife of Arthur, mother of Sheila and Eric
    GERALD CROFT - the son of Sir George Croft of Crofts Limited, a competitor of Birling and Company, engaged to Sheila
    EDNA - maid at the Birling household
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    Priestley's classic play of the believable middle-class Yorkshire family called to account for its moral crimes by the enigmatic Inspector Goole stands as a metaphor for our own failure to accept our responsibility to others. 

    Stunningly revived by the Royal National Theatre in 1992, the production transferred to the West End the following year.

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