AIC Flashcards
Stage direction - lighting should be pink…..
lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives then it should be brighter and harsher
stage direction - Aurther Birling is a….
is a heavy-looking rather portentous man in his middle fifties
Mr Birling “I don’ often…
I don’t often make speeches at you
Mr Birling “ Unsinkable…
” Unsinkable absolutely unsinkable”
Mr Birling “you’d think everybody has to look…”
“You’d think everybody has to look after everybody else, as if we were all mixed up together like bees in a hive”
Mr Birling “it obviously has nothing to do..”
“It obviously has nothing to do with the wretched girls suicide”
Mr birling “if you don’t come down sharply..”
“If you don’t come down sharply on some of these people they’d soon be asking for the earth”
Inspector : after all it’s better to ask…
“After all it’s better to ask for the earth than to take it”
Sheila “I think it was a mean…”
“I think it was a mean thing to do perhaps that spoilt everything for her”
Sheila: “but these girls aren’t..”
“But these girls aren’t cheap labour -they’re people”
Inspector “yes but you can’t…
“Yes, but you can’t, it’s too late. She’s dead.”
Gerald - “don’t say anything…”
“Don’t say anything to the inspector”
Sheila: “you mustn’t try to build…”
You mustn’t try to build up a kind of wall between us and that girl
Sheila “perhaps it’s because…”
“Perhaps it’s because impertinent is such a silly word”
Sheila “no he’s giving us the rope”
“No he’s giving us the rope - so that we’ll hang ourselves “
