ONE of JB Priestley’s best-known plays returns to Bradford this week.
The acclaimed National Theatre production of An Inspector Calls, directed by Stephen Daldry, has been a West End and Broadway hit, winning Tony and Olivier awards.
Bradford-born Priestley’s haunting thriller, casting a spotlight on Edwardian hypocrisy, is set one April evening in 1912 at the home of the wealthy mill-owning Birling family. Their dinner is interrupted by the mysterious Inspector Goole, investigating the death of a young working-class woman. As each family member is questioned, it becomes clear that they were all involved with the woman in some way.
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Christine Kavanagh, who plays Mrs Birling, said: “Like all the family members, she is taught a harsh lesson in a dramatic, terrifying way. The Inspector seems innocuous but is in fact ruthless. The notion that we’re all responsible for each other is particularly relevant today.”
An Inspector Calls runs at the Alhambra from tomorrow to Saturday.
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