An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. It is one of Priestley's best-known works for the stage and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th-century English theatre. The play's success and reputation were boosted by a successful revival by English director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre in 1992 and a tour of the UK in 2011–2012. The play is a three-act drama which takes place on a single night in April 1912, focusing on the prosperous upper middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in the fictional town of Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands". The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman in her mid-twenties.
| Written by | J. B. Priestley |
| Date premiered | 6 July 1945 |
| Place premiered | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Original language | English |
| Genre | Drama |
| Setting | Edwardian England |
About An Inspector Calls
After the suicide of a young woman a mysterious inspector investigates the Birling family and one of their guests from a dinner party that took place on the night of the incident. The made-for-television film was directed by Helen Edmundson.
Achievement of An Inspector Calls
The movie was based on J. B. Priestley's 1945 novel of the same name. Filming took place in Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
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Latest information about An Inspector Calls updated on July 28 2021.
