Inspector Calls Flashcards
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It is an evening in spring, 1912
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The dining room is of a fairly large suburban house
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Not cosy and homelike
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The lighting should be pink and intimate until the inspector arrives and then it should be brighter and harder
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Arthur Birling at one end, his wife at the other, eric downstage and Sheila and Gerald seated upstage
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Edna the parlourmaid, is just clearing the table.
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Champagne glasses
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Arthur Birling is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in this speech
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His wife is about fifty, a rather cold woman and her husbands ‘social superior’
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Sheila is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited
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Gerald croft is an attractive chap about thirty, very much the well-bred young man about town
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Eric is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive
