Learning from a second call to the infirmary that no recent cases of suicide have been reported, the family surmise that the Inspector was a fraud and that his story was fictitious. The cast for the original London production in 1946 included Margaret Leighton, Ralph Richardson, Marian Spencer and Alec Guinness. There followed—eventually—a cinematic treatment with Alastair Sim as the Inspector in 1954. An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. When it is confirmed that Goole is not really a policeman, Arthur, Sibyl and Gerald immediately regain an unjustified sense of outrage. A 2015 Hong Kong film reinterpreted the story as a black comedy, adding slapstick elements. Chris Power’s Brief Survey of the Short Story has featured in the Guardian since 2007. These notes show the process of developing the set and staging which made Stephen Daldry’s 1992 show radically different from earlier productions of An Inspector Calls. Goole comes to Sybil next, whom he identifies as the head of a women's charity which the pregnant and destitute Eva turned to for help. At the Birlings' home in the industrial town of Brumley, Arthur Birling – a wealthy factory owner and local politician – celebrates his daughter Sheila's engagement to a rival magnate's son, Gerald Croft. Good night. Items of Interest in the Programme: From the Manager's Office (Derek Coleman) starts with a quote from Anne Croft the famous musical comedy actress in an edition of Pantomime Annual in 1931! Arthur Birling is described as "a heavy-looking, rather silly goose really of a man portentous man in his middle fifties". The first Broadway production opened at the Booth Theatre on 21 October 1947 and ran until 10 January 1948. And why? Likewise, Eric angrily accuses his father of ‘beginning to pretend now that nothing’s really happened at all’. A BBC Schools version of An Inspector Calls was produced in three 30-minute episodes, shown between 22 September and 6 October 1981 on BBC1. Oh, to have been a member of that first audience! One other person is present: Edna the maid, who is going back and forth to the sideboard with dirty plates and glasses. The cast included Pauline Jameson as Sybil Birling, Peter Baldwin as Arthur Birling, Charlotte Attenborough as Sheila Birling, Simon Shepherd as Gerald Croft and Adam Godley as Eric Birling. Usage terms © PW Productions. Goole's questioning reveals that each member of the family had contributed to Eva's despondency and suicide. The British Library offers some resources on J. ‘Then look at the way he talked to me’, Arthur Birling complains. Throughout the course of the Inspector’s investigation, and the testimony of Gerald and each of the Birlings, the supposedly respectable city of Brumley is revealed to be a place of deep class divisions and hypocrisy. It was repeated on primetime BBC1 in three episodes between 17 and 31 August 1982, and as a single 85-minute version on 2 September 1984. You’re just the kind of son-in-law I’ve always wanted. Priestley had written the play in a single week and all Britain's theatres had already been booked for the season. [ 6] [ 7] The play had its first British production in 1946 at the New Theatre in London with Ralph Richardson as Inspector Goole, Harry Andrews as Gerald Croft, Margaret Leighton as Sheila Birling, Julien Mitchell as Arthur Birling, Marian Spencer as Sybil Birling and Alec Guinness as Eric Birling. The piece tells the story, which took place in 1912 in the fictional Brumley, an “industrial city in the Northern Midlands.” The screenplay was adapted by Desmond Davis and directed by Guy Hamilton. [6] While no single member of the Birling family is solely responsible for Eva's death, together they function as a hermetic class system that exploits neglected, vulnerable women, with each example of exploitation leading collectively to Eva's social exclusion, despair and suicide. MAKE A CALL ON THIS INSPECTOR. Choose Yes please to open the survey in a new browser window or tab, and then complete it when you are ready. The play is a three-act drama which takes place on a single night in April 1912,[4] focusing on the prosperous upper middle-class Birling family,[5] who live in a comfortable home in the fictional town of Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands". After the new wave of social realist theatre in the 1950s and 1960s, the play fell out of fashion, and was dismissed as an example of outdated bourgeois "drawing room" dramas, but became a staple of regional repertory theatre. Dominant, arrogant, self-centred, and morally blind. The Germans don’t want war. She derides women like Eva as immoral, dishonest, and greedy. The setting of the play in a single room also suggests their self-absorption, and disconnectedness from the wider world. Items of Interest in the Programme: From the Manager's Office (Derek Coleman) starts with a quote from Anne Croft the famous musical comedy actress in an edition of Pantomime Annual in 1931! © J.B. Priestley Archive, Special Collections, University of Bradford. J B Priestley’s play An Inspector Calls, first performed in 1945, is a morality play disguised as a detective thriller. An Inspector Calls is a three-act play with one setting: the dining room of ‘a fairly large suburban house belonging to a fairly prosperous manufacturer’. Cast: Ralph Richardson as Inspector Goole, Harry Andrews as Gerald Croft, Margaret Leighton as Sheila Birling, Julian Mitchell as Arthur Birling, Marian Spencer as Sybil Birling and Alec Guinness as Eric Birling. The morality play is a very old theatrical form, going back to the medieval period, which sought to instruct audiences about virtue and evil. It is precisely this difference between a socialist and a capitalist society that Arthur Birling is discussing in Act 1 when Inspector Goole arrives: But the way some of these cranks talk and write now, you’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive – a man has to mind his own business and look after himself…. Arthur Birling is an arrogant and dismissive character used by Priestley as a dramatic vehicle to criticise capitalism, the arrogance of the upper classes and the ignorance of the elder generations. With Bernard Hepton, Nigel Davenport, Margaret Tyzack, Simon Ward. The tale is simple, the telling tense. He shows each person an identifying photograph of the dead woman one by one, leading Gerald to later suspect they were all shown photographs of different women. Inspector Goole. Usage terms © The Estate of J.B. Priestley. The production was directed by Rosalyn Ward. Sybil, however, convinced the committee to deny her application for financial aid. Many read the character as an ‘angel in disguise’. An Inspector Calls is set in a large suburban house belonging to a wealthy family. The Inspector’s arrival cuts Arthur Birling off mid-sentence, enacting in miniature the clash between two ideological positions that unfolds throughout the rest of the play. As Goole leaves he warns that "If men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish" – an allusion to the impending war. The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr: sketches and original artwork, Sean's Red Bike by Petronella Breinburg, illustrated by Errol Lloyd, Unfinished Business: The Fight for Women's Rights, The fight for women’s rights is unfinished business, Get 3 for 2 on all British Library Fiction, Why you need to protect your intellectual property, Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives Licence, ‘Your Godot was our Godot’: Beckett’s global journeys, Shelagh Delaney: The Start of the Possible. The first UK production was mounted the following year when Ralph Richardson, Priestley’s friend and frequent collaborator, led a cast including Margaret Leighton and Alec Guinness into the New aka the Noël Coward Theatre. Over the course of the next two acts he will lay responsibility for Eva Smith’s death at the feet of each of the Birlings and Gerald Croft, showing how their indifference to social responsibility has contributed to the death of this young woman. The London premiere of An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley was produced at the New Theatre, London, in October 1946, directed by Basil Dean. The success of the production since 1992 has led to a critical reappraisal of Priestley as a politically engaged playwright who offered a sustained critique of the hypocrisy of English society. "Margaret Leighton, tall, slender and fair … was an enchanting Raina, with a shy humour lurking behind the romantic dignity," reported Audrey Williamson. The economic boom and the Jazz Age were over, and America began the period called the Great Depression. Leighton went on to a variety of roles, including Queen Elizabeth (Elizabeth Woodville) in Richard III, Yolena in Uncle Vanya, Roxanne in Cyrano, and Sheila Birling in An Inspector Calls. The play also arguably acts as a critique of Victorian-era notions of middle-class philanthropy towards the poor, which is based on presumptions of the charity-givers' social superiority and severe moral judgement towards the "deserving poor". The production was staged by Cedric Hardwicke. Goole's berating of the non-aristocratic capitalists touched sensibilities in post-war Britain. Except as otherwise permitted by your national copyright laws this material may not be copied or distributed further. The cast for the original London production in 1946 included Margaret Leighton, Ralph Richardson, Marian Spencer and Alec Guinness. This article is about the play. An Inspector Calls had its world premiere in September 1945 in Leningrad feeding speculation that it confirmed Priestley’s left leanings, producing the play in communist Russia rather than his native capitalist Britain. Arthur Birling is a capitalist businessman through and through, entirely focussed on profit even when discussing the marriage of his daughter: I’m sure you’ll make her happy. This photograph is of the set from the 1992 production at the National Theatre, directed by Stephen Daldry. Adapted by Helen Edmundson and directed by Aisling Walsh for Drama Republic,[19][20][21] it stars David Thewlis as Inspector Goole,[22] Chloe Pirrie as Sheila Birling, Sophie Rundle as Eva Smith/Daisy Renton, Ken Stott as Arthur Birling, Kyle Soller as Gerald Croft, Miranda Richardson as Sybil Birling and Finn Cole as Eric Birling. The decade was one of learning and exploration. Despite vigorous cross-examination from Goole, she denies any wrongdoing. An Inspector Calls was first performed in 1945 in two Russian theatres (Moscow's Kamerny Theatre and Leningrad's Comedy Theatre), as a suitable British venue could not be found. When the show did premiere a year later in 1946, the cast included Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, and Alec Guinness. In 2018, a film adaptation directed by Jason Farries and Leona Clarke was released.[16]. "An enjoyable slice of nearly-noir, the Teckman Mystery is close to being a fossil-record technothriller." A second 90-minute BBC Radio adaptation was transmitted on BBC Radio 4 on 29 May 2010 in the Saturday Play slot. An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. He reviews books for that paper and the New Statesman. W postać inspektora Goole wcielił się bengalski idol poranny Uttam Kumar , którego imię zostało … B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945[1] and at the New Theatre in London the following year. Henrietta Butler: © Henrietta Butler / ArenaPAL www.arenapal.com The next best thing is getting to Quogue to see “An Inspector Calls,” at the Hampton Theatre Company through Nov. 8. Published under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence. Produced by Associated Television, the 25-minute programme was directed by George More O'Ferrall, and starred Reginald Marsh as Arthur Birling, Julian Curry as Eric, Margo Andrew as Sheila, Pauline Winter as Mrs Birling, Stuart Saunders as Inspector Goole, Michael Graham as Gerald Croft, and Ann Dimitri as Edna. The son of Sir George and Lady Croft of Crofts Limited, a competitor of Birling and Company, he is at the Birling residence to celebrate his recent engagement to Sheila. Monday Matinee presents Angela Baddeley Frank Pettingell. He took funds from his father's business in order to support her and the child, but she refused the stolen money. Or is it young women? In 1986 Richard Wilson directed a production at the Royal Exchange, Manchester with Geraldine Alexander as Sheila Birling, Hugh Grant as Eric Birling and Graeme Garden as Inspector Goole. This seems a bizarre coincidence with which to end the play, but if we consider An Inspector Calls as a moral fable, and not as naturalistic theatre, it begins to seem much more like a logical, even inevitable, conclusion. As Arthur Birling’s behaviour towards Eva makes clear, it is a place where factory owners exploit their workers as a matter of course – part of his ‘a man has to look after himself’ philosophy. The romantic idea of gentlemanly chivalry towards "fallen women" is also debunked as being based on male lust and sexual exploitation of the weak by the powerful. But a later section of this scene-setting – on the walls are ‘imposing but tasteless pictures and engravings’, and the ‘general effect is substantial and comfortable and old-fashioned but not cosy and homelike’ – suggests that although the Birling’s have wealth and social standing, they are not loving to one another or compassionate to others. Except as otherwise permitted by your national copyright laws this material may not be copied or distributed further. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. Directed by Alfred Bradley, it starred Ronald Baddilet as Arthur Birling, Derrick Gilbert as Gerald Croft, Ann Rye as Sybil Birling, Barbara Flynn as Sheila Birling, Christian Rodska as Eric Birling, Teresa Moore as Edna, Geoffrey Banks as Inspector Goole.[27]. Read Andrew Robertson's DVD Review. J C Trewin: © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2016. ‘I didn’t suppose you did’, the industrialist replies: a brief exchange that makes a clear point about class, and the battle between egalitarianism and privilege. I doubt if anyone will top Margaret Leighton as Mrs Maudsley either. Goole then plays his final card, making Sybil lay the blame at the feet of the "drunken young man" who got Eva pregnant. The characters have been confronted with the error of their ways; some have repented, some have not. [23] This was followed by a BBC Light Programme production on 10 June 1953. The tale is simple, the telling tense. But who is the Inspector? He seems excited at the prospect of unmasking the "false" Inspector and seems almost desperate for others to believe him. Eric is presented as a "Jack-the-Lad" character with a drinking habit, which led to his raping Eva and getting her pregnant. In the play’s penultimate twist, he is revealed not to be a police inspector at all, yet, as Eric states, ‘He was our Police Inspector, all right’. Usage terms © J.B. Priestley Archive, Special Collections, University of Bradford. The Right also claimed gleefully that the play had been rejected in Britain. The play was produced and performed at the Ferdowsi Theatre in Iran in late 1940s based on the translation by Bozorg Alavi. Another production opened on 25 October 1995 at the Garrick Theatre and ran for six years until its transfer to the Playhouse Theatre in 2001. "An Inspector Calls" is about the fragility of society and the evils of selfishness. Except as otherwise permitted by your national copyright laws this material may not be copied or distributed further. He has written a collection of short stories Mothers (Faber, March 2018). When the inspector visits the Birling's house she says "an Inspector's called." Tweet. Details about him are scant. The text in this article is available under the Creative Commons License. The play leaves open the question of whether Eva Smith is a real woman (who sometimes uses different names, including Daisy Renton), or multiple people the Inspector pretends are one. Dramatic irony is rarely a subtle technique, but Priestley’s use of it is exceptionally blunt. Stephen Potter: © Originally published in the New Statesman. This helps explain the effectiveness of the play’s final twist. Or is it? Olwen Brookes (26 November 1901 - 17 September 1976) was an English actress, known for An Inspector Calls, The Happiest Days of Your Life and The First Night of Pygmalion. The first two productions of An Inspector Calls were in Moscow. When the show did premiere a year later in 1946, the cast included Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, and Alec Guinness. The striking poster for the Moscow premiere of An Inspector Calls shows the figure of Eva Smith/Daisy Renton against a backdrop of an industrial town, suggesting the wronged young woman is at the centre of the story. An Inspector Calls followed its initial successful run abroad with its first performance in London during the 1946 season at the New Theatre, complete with a cast full of highly celebrated British actors such as Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton and Alec Guiness. He does this through the use of dramatic irony, having Arthur state opinions that the audience, with the advantage of hindsight, knows to be incorrect. A 1954 film version, An Inspector Calls, was produced in England by Watergate Productions Ltd. [24][25], A second version of Pughe's adaptation was broadcast on the BBC Home Service on 12 November 1960. [tags: An Inspector Calls Essays] 1465 words (4. When Inspector Goole arrives everything changes. [28] It starred Toby Jones as Inspector Goole, David Calder as Arthur Birling, Frances Barber as Sybil Birling and Morven Christie as Sheila Birling. Having discovered that Inspector Goole is not a real policeman, and that there is no dead woman called Eva Smith at the Brumley morgue, a phone call announces that a woman has killed herself, and an inspector is on his way to question the Birlings. An Inspector Calls is a social drama by the English author John Boynton Priestley and one of his most famous works. In 1912, the mysterious Inspector Goole arrives at the home of a wealthy manufacturer, telling the complacent family members that he has questions for them about the suicide of one Eva Smith. Adapted by Cynthia Pughe and produced by McWhinnie, it starred Frank Pettingell as Arthur Birling, Gladys Young as Sybil Birling, Angela Baddeley as Sheila Birling, David Enders as Eric Birling, Alastair Duncan as Gerald Croft, Dorothy Smith as Edna, and Richard Williams as Inspector Goole. In the dining room five people are finishing their dinner: four members of the Birling family and one guest. Goole produces a photograph of Eva and shows it to Arthur, who acknowledges that she worked in one of his mills. The first UK production was mounted the following year when Ralph Richardson, Priestley’s friend and frequent collaborator, led a cast including Margaret Leighton and Alec Guinness into the New aka the Noël Coward Theatre. Alan Dent: © Alan Dent / Associated Newspapers Ltd. This prestigious, 1940s theatre programme presenting An Inspector Calls is signed by: Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Julien Mitchell and Harry Andrews. Please consider the environment before printing, All text is © British Library and is available under Creative Commons Attribution Licence except where otherwise stated. [26], BBC Radio 4 broadcast a BBC Manchester production on 14 December 1979. Usage terms © Philip Carter. An Inspector Calls … ... Margaret Leighton as Sheila Birling, Julien Mitchell as Arthur Birling, Marian Spencer as Sybil Birling and Alec Guinness as Eric Birling. He tells the Birlings and Gerald that a young woman, Eva Smith, has committed suicide by drinking disinfectant, and he has questions about the case. This could be considered clumsy, but it underlines the fact that An Inspector Calls is a play with a point to make, and a character whose sole job is to make it. AN INSPECTOR CALLS SUMMARIES ACT ONE The novel starts with the description of dining room. Initially, he appears to be correct and does not think the Birlings have anything to feel ashamed of or worry about. [15] The production returned to the Playhouse in London's West End in November 2016, with Liam Brennan in the name part.[11]. The 1920s represented an era of change and growth. His stubbornness is shown when refusing responsibility for Eva's death; he fired her in order to quell dissent among his workforce and keep labour costs low, which he says is standard business practice. After prompting from Goole, Sheila admits to recognising Eva too – she had contrived to have her fired from her job in a local department store over an imaginary slight. Except as otherwise permitted by your national copyright laws this material may not be copied or distributed further. Both during and after Goole's visit, the Birlings question his credentials, and a phone call to the local police station reveals there is no one by his name on the force. A revival of the play by British director Stephen Daldry (produced by PW Productions) opened at the National Theatre's Lyttelton Theatre in September 1992. At the mention of Eva's alias "Daisy Renton", Gerald starts. Published under a Creative Commons Non-Commercial No-Derivatives Licence. The play's success and reputation were boosted by a successful revival by English director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre in 1992[3] and a tour of the UK in 2011–2012. He says he is newly posted to Brumley, and he is impervious to Arthur Birling’s threats about his close relationship with the chief constable ‘I don’t play golf’, he tells Birling. Arthur makes a call to the chief constable, who confirms this. Sybil Birling, "a rather cold woman" of about fifty, is Arthur's wife. [10][11] It won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival of a Play, and was widely praised for making the work involving and politically relevant for a modern audience. But the past is done. A second BBC Television version was screened on 19 February 1961 as part of the Sunday Night Play series. He represents the capitalist ruling class, repeatedly describing himself with pride as a "hard-headed businessman", and is arguably the main subject of Priestley's social critique. Oh, to have been a member of that first audience! It is suggested in the final scene that a quite real investigation will follow Goole's, and his purpose has been to warn the family in advance and encourage them to accept responsibility for their wrongdoing. Only Sheila and Eric recognise and resist this hypocritical behaviour. By the play's end her social conscience has been awakened and she has a new awareness of her responsibilities to others. We are members of one body. It is one of Priestley's best known works for the stage and considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th-century English theatre. The cast list is presented across page 3 in order of appearance and includes very popular actors of … An Inspector Calls had its first UK production in 1946, at the New Theatre, London. It is considered to be one of Priestley’s best known works for the stage and one of the classics of mid-20 th century English theatre. W A Darlington: © Telegraph Media Group Limited. Margaret Leighton is part of G.I. You may not use the material for commercial purposes. She is asked to stay up late during the play by Mrs Birling to make tea for the Birling family. Margaret Leighton, CBE (26 February 1922 – 13 January 1976) was an English actress, active on stage and television, and in film. The play ends with a telephone call, taken by Arthur, who reports that a young woman has died (a suspected case of suicide), and that the police are on their way to question them. 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