Inspector calls stage directions Flashcards
Time and date set
It is an evening in spring, 1912
Setting of the whole play
The dining room is of a fairly large suburban house
Description of house
not cosy and homelike.
Lighting colours
The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives and then it should be
brighter and harder.
Seating arrangements
Where everyone is sat at the table
Arthur Birling at one end, his wife at the other, Eric downstage and Sheila and Gerald seated
upstage.
EDNA’S job
what she is doing
EDNA, the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table,
What there drinking from
champagne glasses
Mr birlings description
Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in this middle fifties with fairly easy
manners but rather provincial in this speech.
Mrs birlings description
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.
Gerald croft description
Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, … very much the well-bred young man-about-town.
Eric description
Eric is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
