Priestley had lived through both the World Wars, and had seen the class barriers eroded with the passing of each one. Priestley’s intention in writing ‘An Inspector Calls’ was to make sure that Britain did not repeat the social mistakes of it’s past. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster.J.B. John Boynton Priestley, OM (1894-1984), known as J. ' To those who love a good mystery, those who want a story to let them do a little thinking of their own, or those who quite simply are interested in a show with a wonderful ensemble, An Inspector Calls is most certainly for you.' - Monadnock Ledger In regional repertory, high school, college, and community theatre Revivals at the National Theatre in London and on Broadway, and is regularly performed The classic thriller has enjoyed enormously successful Philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling ofĪn Inspector Calls had its first British production in 1946 at the New Theatre and ran for 8 years in London's West End. With the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a Considered to be one of the classics of mid-20thĬentury English theatre, An Inspector Calls was written when society Reported, which ties in mysteriously with the foregoing.

Recorded, an actual copper shows, and a last-minute suicide is After the false inspector hasīeen shown up, and it is discovered that no suicide had been

Revelation, however, is in the inspector – who turns out to be noĬopper at all but a mysterious individual with full knowledge ofĮveryone's connection with the suicide. Self-centered or cowardly, its good humour turning to acid, and goodįellowship to dislike, before the evening is over. The family, closely knit andįriendly at the beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, Young girl dies by suicide and an eminently respectable Britishįamily is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death.Ĭelebratory dinner to interrogate the family, and during theĬourse of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated TheĪction of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a Self-satisfied family implicated in the death of a young woman. Is a classic British thriller about a mysterious police inspector whoĪppears out of the fog to upend the lives of a prosperous and

His investigation into the death by suicideĮvening and his startling revelations shake the very foundations of Inspector visits an engagement party in a middle-class home in theĮnglish countryside to question the guests about the recent death of a young woman. Named by the Royal National Theatre of Britain as one of the best 100Īn Inspector Calls is a full-length drama by J.B.

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