Opening Stage Directions Flashcards
It is an evening …
It is an evening in spring, 1912
The dining room is …
The dining room is of a fairly large suburban house
Not cosy…
not cosy and homelike.
The lighting should be …
The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives and then it should be brighter and harder.
Table order?
Arthur Birling at one end, his wife at the other, Eric downstage and Sheila and Gerald seated
upstage.
Edna the …
Edna the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table,
Object to show wealth on the table?
champagne glasses , port
Arthur Birling is a … , rather … man in this … with fairly easy
manners but rather …
Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in this middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in this speech.
His wife is about …, a rather … and her husband’s…
His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husband’s social superior.
Sheila is a … in her … , very pleased with life and …
Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.
Gerald Croft is an … about … , very much the … young man-about-town.
Gerald Croft is an attractive chap about thirty, very much the well-bred young man-about-town.
Eric is in his… , not quite at ease, half … , half …
Eric is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
