Philip Allan Literature Guide (for Gcse): An Inspector Calls (Paperback)

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 stage, time and space are usually compressed or telescoped according to the whims and fancies of th...

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 consider the story to be like Agatha Christie's stories. I was wrong. This play was much more serious an...

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 and finds each more wretched than the last.

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 his peers witnessed, and ushered in. Entertaining, artfully conveyed, albeit with a simplistic, rathe...

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 that they played a role in the girl's descent. This audio drama features Toby Jones as the inspecto...