Inspector Calls Flashcards
Time the play is set
It is an evening in spring, 1912
Set in a big house in the suburbs and shows us that they have money
The dining room is of a fairly large suburban house
Shows us that it doesn’t feel like a home.
not cosy and homelike
Directions about lighting and shows us that the inspector is a main character
The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives and then it should be
brighter and harder.
Arthur Birling at one end, his wife at the other, Eric downstage and Sheila and Gerald seated
upstage.
Shows us the order of importance by where they r seating
Shows us that she is the maid of the house and has no importance
EDNA, the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table
Shows us that they have a lot of money and are a wealthy family
champagne glasses
Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in this middle fifties with fairly easy
manners but rather provincial in this speech.
Shows us that he is the man of the house
Shows her importance but not as much as Arthur Birling
His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.
Spoiled
Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.
Shows us that he is a btec prince charming
Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, … very much the well-bred young man-about-
town.
Shows the lack of importance of eric
Eric is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
