An Inspector Calls Flashcards
Setting
It is an evening in spring, 1912
House description
The dining room is of a fairly large suburban house
Home feeling
not cosy and homelike
Lighting of the house
The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives and then it should be
brighter and harder
Setting of the play
Arthur Birling at one end, his wife at the other, Eric downstage and Sheila and Gerald seated
upstage.
Description of Edna
EDNA, the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table,
Celebration
champagne glasses
Description of Mr 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 Mrs Birling
His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.
Description of Sheila Birling
Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.
Description of Gerald Croft
Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, … very much the well-bred young man-about-
town.
Description of Eric Birling
Eric is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
