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, Context
Preistly Wrote AnInspector Calls in 1945 during World War 2
The audience would know how Wareffected everyone
The play is set in 1912
o two years before WW1
1912
year the Titanic Sank
Womens lives were controlled
bytheir 1
families husbands
Onlymen who owned property could vote Women Werent allowed tovote at all
Class divides were prevelant during this time The ones with themost money had mostpower
Not much government help for people in need
Charities were vimportant
,
, An Inspector Calls
J.B Priestley
CHARACTERS
Arthur Birling
Sible Birling His Wife
Sheila Birling His Daughter
Eric Birling His Son
Edna The Maid
Gerald Croft.
Inspector Goole.
All 3 acts which are continuous, take place in the dining room of the Birling's house
in Brumley, an industrial city in the north Midlands.
It is an evening in spring, 1912.
ACT ONE
The dining room is of a fairly large suburban house, belonging to a prosperous
manufacturer.
It has a good solid furniture of the period. Shows class not a close
family(if
The general effect is a substantial and heavily comfortable but not cosy and homelike.
a realistic set is used, then it should be swung back, as it was in the production at the new
theatre. By doing this, you can have the dining-table centre downstage during act one, when it is
needed there, and then swinging back, can reveal the fireplace for act two, and then for act three
can show a small table with a telephone on it, downstage of the fireplace; and by this time the
dining-table and it chairs have moved well upstage. Producers who wish to avoid this tricky
business, which involves two re-settings of the scene and some very accurate adjustments of the
extra flats necessary would be well advised to dispense with an ordinary realistic set if only bonds
because the dining-table becomes a nuisance. The lighting should be pink and intimate until thefamily
INSPECTOR arrives and then it should be brighter and harder.) to
tha
At rise of curtain, the four Birling's and Gerald are seated at the table, with Arthur showing
Birling at one end, his wife at the other, Eric downstage and Sheila and Gerald seated upstage.they have
EDNA, the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table, which has no cloth, of the dessert
nothing to
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