An Inspector Calls An Inspector Calls
a DRAMA
by J.B. Priestley
September 30, October 1, 2, 3,
October 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 2010
Note: The performance on Sunday the 3rd is a matinee and begins at 2pm. All other performances begin at 8pm.
"A psychologically adept work and a most engaging play!" - Variety
Though ostensibly a remarkably clear and effective drama, an air of mystic unreality underlies An Inspector Calls. When a young girl commits suicide in an English industrial city, an eminently respectable British family is subjected to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate them. To some degree, all are implicated, but what was a friendly, close-knit family at the beginning of the evening is revealed as selfish, self-centred, and cowardly before the night is over. And who was the "inspector"? Why was no suicide reported to the police? How did he know?