Inspector Calls

Question 1

Setting

Answer 1

It is an evening in spring, 1912

Question 2

House

Answer 2

The dining room of a fairly large suburban house

Question 3

Description

Answer 3

Not cozy and homelike

Question 4

Lighting

Answer 4

The lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives and then it should be brighter and harder

Question 5

Stage

Answer 5

Arthur Birling at one end, his wife at the other, Eric downstage and Sheila and Gerald seated upstage

Question 6

Edna

Answer 6

Edna, the parlourmaid is just clearing the table

Question 7

Champagne

Answer 7

Champagne glasses

Question 8

Mr Birling

Answer 8

Arthur Birling is a heavy looking,rather portentous man in this middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in this speech

Question 9

Mrs Birling

Answer 9

His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husbands social superior.

Question 10

Shiela

Answer 10

Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited

Question 11

Gerald

Answer 11

Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, very much the well bred young man about town.

Question 12

Eric

Answer 12

Eric is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive