An Inspector Calls (Paperback) by J B Priestley

from Nandakishore_Varma

The proscenium stage has a romance of its own. You, the spectator, is actually a Peeping Tom, staring into the lives of total strangers through the invisible fourth wall. And what lives! For on the...

from pgmcc

I read this play knowing nothing about it other than it involved a police inspector calling in on a well-to-do family dinner party and asking about a crime. What preconceptions I had led me to cons...

from jburlinson

The film version is an absolute pip, with a great part (the title role) for the wonderful Alastair Sim. The play itself is a little lumpy as it loftily surveys one member of a family after another ...

from eglinton

The Edwardian drawing room of smug, satisfied haves is rattled by the disruptions of new classes and technologies and connections, all unravelling in the 20th century maelstrom that Priestley and h...

from MickyFine

The Birling family are celebrating the engagement of their daughter when an inspector arrives at their door announcing the suicide of a local girl. As the evening unfolds, the entire party realizes...