![]() ![]() The play is studied in many British schools as one of the prescribed texts for the English Literature GCSE. Long considered part of the repertory of classic drawing-room theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing criticism of the hypocrisies of Victorian and Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley's socialist political principles. The play focusses on the prosperous upper middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in the fictional town of Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands." The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman in her mid-twenties. ![]() The play is a three-act drama which takes place on a single night on 5 April 1912. The play's success and reputation were boosted by a successful revival by English director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre in 1992 and a tour of the UK in 2011–2012. It is one of Priestley's best-known works for the stage and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. ![]() Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. ![]() An Inspector Calls is a modern morality play written by English dramatist J. ![]()
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