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Producer:
Directed by Stephen Daldry
Writer:
J. B. Priestley
From the Oscar nominated Director of The Reader, The Hours and Billy Elliot comes the multi award-winning West End and Broadway production of J. B. Priestley's classic thriller An Inspector Calls.
The story begins with the mysterious Inspector Goole arriving unexpectedly at the prosperous Birling family home. Their peaceful dinner party is shattered by his investigations into their involvement in the death of a young woman whom each of them in turn has exploited.
Stephen Daldry's production of J. B. Priestey's An Inspector Calls is without doubt the most outstanding theatrical events of our generation. Winner of 19 major awards, it opened at the National Theatre in 1992, transferring to the West End for two years before going on an extensive international tour including Australia and New York (Broadway). The last West End production ran for 8 years and the show has enjoyed a number of major UK tours.
This production of An Inspector Calls has clocked up over 4000 performances worldwide – making it the longest running revival of a play in history.
Press Quotes
5 STARS
'Did any stage revival in the Nineties take more risks, cause more jaws to drop or do more to shake people awake to the transformative power of theatre than Stephen Daldry’s radical re-visioning of J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls?’
'Ever-green fresh. No other revival in this dying decade has come close to matching its breath-taking daring and faultless execution'
Daily Telegraph
5 STARS
'Visually astonishing'
'Seeing it again on its return to London re-enforces what an amazing, expressionist vision Daldry had but also what fantastic material he had to work with'
Daily Express
4 STARS
'Still brilliantly accusatory, bracing and strange'
The Guardian
4 STARS
‘Still heart-thumpingly thrilling'
'The production grips and dazzles. Rain teems down; Stephen Warbeck’s music, thunderous with foreboding, is as nerve-shreddingly exciting as a Bernard Hermann score for a Hitchcock movie'
'Ian MacNeil’s design is as impressive as ever’
The Times
5 STARS
'As fresh and mesmerising as it was 17 years ago’
‘The transformation in the third act remains a landmark coup de théâtre: once seen, never forgotten'
Whatsonstage.com
4 STARS
Critics' Choice
Time Out
'If you're looking for a visually compelling evening with a stunning script, wonderful acting, and above all, something that'll make you think, see this'
The Londonist
'An intriguing, clever piece of theatre that leaves you thinking about it long after the curtain call'
Official London Theatre
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