Act 1 - Opening Stage Directions

Question 1

“fairly large suburban house”

Question 2

“prosperous manufacturer”

Question 3

“heavily comfortable but not cosy and homelike”

Question 4

“small table with telephone”

Question 5

“lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives and then it should be brighter and harder”

Question 6

“dessert plates and champagne glasses (…) decanter of port, cigar box and cigarettes”

Question 7

“ARTHUR BIRLING is a heavy-looking, rather portenous man (…) with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in speech”

Question 8

“(SYBIL BIRLING) His wife is (…) a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior”

Question 9

“SHEILA is a pretty girl (…), very pleased with life and rather excited”

Question 10

“GERALD CROFT is an attractive chap (…) rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town”

Question 11

Eric is described as “not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive”