What is An Inspector Calls?
{{Infobox Play | name = An Inspector Calls | image = In English Homes Vol 1 Saltram Plympton the dining room 31295001575223 0212.jpg | image_size = 350px | caption = A dining room | writer = [[J. B. Priestley]] | chorus = | characters = Mr. Arthur Birling<br />Mrs. Sybil Birling<br />Gerald Croft<br />Sheila Birling<br />Eric Birling<br />Inspector Goole<br />Edna<br />Eva Smith (Only mentioned and heard, never seen) | mute = | setting = The dining-room of the Birlings' house in Brumley (spring, 1912). | date of premiere = 1 October 1946 | place = {{UK}} | original language = [[English language|English]] | series = | subject = [[Industry]], [[Wealth]], [[Relationships]] & [[Morality]] | genre = [[Drama]] | web = | playbill_event = | ibdb_id = }} '''''An Inspector Calls''''' is a [[Play (theatre)|play]] written in 1945 by the British playwright [[J. B. Priestley]], but set in 1912. Its socialist views ran against the capitalist views of many theatres visitors. It was first performed in 1945 in two Moscow theatres. It was then first produced in London at the New Theatre on 1 October 1946. The play shows the way in which people are all connected, and reflects Priestley's [[socialism|socialist]] views while outlining the problems he saw with [[capitalism]]. The main themes in the play are an equitable (fair) [[society]], [[wikt:responsibility|responsibility]]<nowiki/> and [[love]]. == Dramatic presentation == * The play is set in the town of Brumley. It is about a police inspector, Inspector Goole, who questions a family about the [[suicide]] of a young woman whom the family knew. Many events which happen after the play are contradicted by Arthur Birling, such as the [[RMS Titanic|Titanic]] being unsinkable and that war with [[Germany]] would never happen. These are examples of [[dramatic irony]]. * The play takes place in one set (the dining room of the Birlings' house), in [[real time (media)|real time]]. This is a [[dramatic device]] which keeps the audience's attention on the dialogue as