An Inspector Calls at The Novella Theatre, 2009 Credit: Marilyn Kingwill/ArenaPAL; The context of a play is the circumstances in which it happens. This helps you to understand it. JB Priestley’s ...

An upper-crust family dinner is interrupted by a police inspector who brings news that a girl known to everyone present has died in suspicious circumstances. It seems that any or all of them could ...

Priestley provides very clear instructions about how the play should be staged. In many ways the staging of An Inspector Calls is very simple. It takes place in real time and in one location.

The old classic An Inspector Calls arrived at Sheffield Lyceum theatre on Tuesday night with ample expectation. A play many know thanks to GCSE studies, JB Priestley's masterpiece touches on ...

Now JB Priestley's classic 1945 play, An Inspector Calls, has been adapted with David Thewlis as the eponymous detective. Set in 1912 as a rich family celebrate their daughter's engagement to the ...

Inspector Karl (Louis Koo), the eponymous inspector who pays a visit to the opulent Kau family estate, where things are not as rosy as they appear. Family heads Mr. and Mrs. Kau (Eric Tsang and ...

It's a play for our times - even though it was written 80 years ago. An Inspector Calls never ages and sadly seems more ...

An Inspector Calls was written by Bradford-born playwright ... who was born on Mannheim Road in 1894 are featured quite strongly in the play. He saw the disparity caused by wealth and class ...

A masterpiece of a morality play, An Inspector Calls is a powerful tale of altruism that still resonates with theatergoers today.

You would think there couldn’t be any new ways to play An Inspector Calls, 33 multi-award-winning years on from the debut of what’s become the longest-running revival in history. Did you know ...