An Inspector Calls Flashcards
Time
It is an evening in spring, 1912
Desciption of dining room
The dining room is of a fairly large suburban house
Feel of the home
not cosy and homelike.
Lighting and and how it changes when the Inspector arrives
The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives and then it should be
brighter and harder.
Where are the characters sat on the table
Arthur Birling at one end, his wife at the other, Eric downstage and Sheila and Gerald seated
upstage.
What is Edna ?
What does she do?
EDNA, the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table,
What do the rich drink out of?
Champagne glasses
Description of Arthur Birling
Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in this middle fifties with fairly easy
manners but rather provincial in this speech.
Description of Sybil Birling
His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.
Description of Sheila
Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.
Description of Gerald
Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, … very much the well-bred young man-about-
town.
Description of Eric
Eric is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
