Opening Stage Directions Flashcards
How is the house described?
The dining room is of a fairly large suburban house
How is the lighting described before and after?
The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives and then it should be
brighter and harder.
How is Edna described?
EDNA, the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table,
How can we tell they are rich?
champagne glasses
How is Arthur Birling described ?
Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in this middle fifties with fairly easy
manners but rather provincial in this speech.
How is Mrs Birling described?
His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.
How is Sheila described?
Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.
How is Gerald described?
Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, … very much the well-bred young man-about-
town.
How is Eric described?
Eric is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
