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 “
Gerald “old Joe meggarty half drunk and goggle-eyed , had…
“Old joe meggarty half drunk and goggle-eyed , had wedged her into a corner”
Sheila : “you were the wonderful…”
“You were the wonderful fairy prince. You must’ve adored it Gerald”
Inspector “[massively] public men, Mr Birling…”
“[massively] public men, Mr Birling…” have responsibilities as well as privileges” “
mrs birling “I’m very sorry but I think…”
“I’m very sorry but I think she has only herself to blame”
Birling “the press…”
“The press might easily take it up”
Mrs Birling : “go and look for…”
“Go and look for the father of the child it’s his responsibility”
Mrs Birling “it wasn’t I who had turned out…”
“It wasn’t I who had turned her out of her employment”
Inspector “she lies with a burnt-out
“She lies with a burnt-out inside on a slab”
Inspector “don’t stammer and..”
“Don’t stammer and hammer at me again, man. I’m losing all patience with you people”
Mrs Birling “as if a…”
“As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money”
Mrs Birling “im sorry she should have come to such a horrible end, but…”
““im sorry she should have come to such a horrible end. but i accept no blame for it at all”
Inspector “[grimly] don’t worry, Mrs Birling…
“[grimly] don’t worry, Mrs Birling I shall do my duty [he looks at his watch]”
Eric : “yes I wasn’t in love with her or anything - …”
yes I wasn’t in love with her or anything - but I liked her - she was pretty and a good sport
Inspector: “but each of you helped..
“But each of you helped to kill her. Remember that. Never forget it. “
Inspector “as if she was an animal…
“”As if she was an animal, a thing, not. Person”
Inspector “There are millions..”
“There are millions and millions and millions of Eva smiths and John smiths.”
Inspector “we are members”
“We are members of one body”
Inspector “if men will not learn that lesson then they will be taught it in..”
“if men will not learn that lesson then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish “
Mr Birling “bang on top of…”
“Bang on top of our little celebration, just when we were all feeling so pleased with ourselves “
Eric “the girls still..”
“The girls still dead isn’t she? Nobody’s brought her to life have they?”
Eric “the moneys not the…”
“The moneys not the important thing. Its what happened to the girl’
