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The National Theatre's production of An Inspector Calls, directed by Stephen Daldry has proven to be "the defining production of the 1990s, a work of great directorial daring, breathtaking visual invention and passionate moral urgency" (Charles Spencer, The Daily Telegraph). The show was first produced in 1946, when society was undergoing sweeping transformations.
While holding its audience with the gripping tension of a detective thriller, it is also a philosophical play about social conscience and the crumbling of middle class values.
It is a spring evening in 1912 at the Brumley home of the Birlings, a prosperous industrial family in the North Midlands.
The family is enjoying a dinner party, celebrating the engagement of their daughter to a man who is heir to the most successful family business in the North – but they are about to be interrupted by the persistent Police Inspector Goole.
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