"on the conversation among characters, his greatest asset as a dramatist. Other classic twists on the well-made play can be seen in his use of the General's coat and the hidden photograph in ""Arms and the Man"". Also, J. B. Priestley's 1946 ""An Inspector Calls"" may in some ways be considered a ""well-made play"" in that its action happens before the play starts, and in the case of the older Birlings no moral change takes place. The similarity between Priestley's play and this rather conservative genre might strike some readers/audiences as surprising because Priestley was a socialist. However, his play,"
"with strengthening civilian morale during the Battle of Britain. His left-wing beliefs brought him into conflict with the government, and influenced the birth of the Welfare State. The programme was eventually cancelled by the BBC for being too critical of the Government. He is perhaps best known for his popular 1945 play ""An Inspector Calls"". He also served in the British Army in the First World War. Priestley was born at 34 Mannheim Road, Manningham, which he described as an ""extremely respectable"" suburb of Bradford. His father was a headmaster. His mother died when he was just two years old"
"moral judgement towards the ""deserving poor"". The romantic idea of gentlemanly chivalry towards ""fallen women"" is also debunked as being based on male lust and sexual exploitation of the weak by the powerful. In Goole's final speech, Eva Smith is referred to as a representative for millions of other vulnerable working-class people, and can be read as a call to action for English society to take more responsibility for working-class people, pre-figuring the development of the post-World War II welfare state. ""An Inspector Calls"" was first performed in 1945 in the USSR in two theatres (Kamerny Theatre in Moscow and"
"Personal Call Personal Call is a half-hour radio play written by Agatha Christie and first performed on the BBC Radio Light Programme on Monday, 31 May 1954. The play reuses the character of Inspector Narracott from the 1931 novel ""The Sittaford Mystery"". Christie's official biography states that the play was written after she and her husband, Max Mallowan, returned from their annual summer season at the archaeological dig at Nimrud in 1952. The producer of the play, Ayton Whitaker, found the script to be ""first rate"" saying that it made, ""full use of radio techniques and possibilities."" It appears that"
"up, and even felt timely"". For ""The Daily Telegraph"", Anita Singh was generally positive, writing that the programme was ""was as good an adaptation as it could be"" and praising Helen Edmundson for her ""decent job of expanding the drama"". ""The Guardian""’s Sam Wollaston was positive in his review, writing that Priestley’s ""play might be set over a hundred years ago, in 1912, but the messages and sentiments – about social responsibility and a shared humanity – remain important and relevant... An Inspector Calls, sensitively adapted here by Helen Edmundson, time-travels remarkably well: it translates into gripping 21st-century television"". An"
"A Broadway transfer of the production starring Philip Bosco opened at the Royale Theatre (now the Bernard Jacobs Theatre) on 27 April 1994 and played 454 performances. The first film version of ""An Inspector Calls"" was produced in the United Kingdom by Watergate Productions Ltd; the 1954 screenplay was adapted by Desmond Davis and directed by Guy Hamilton. Alastair Sim starred as Inspector Goole, renamed ""Poole"" for the film, with Jane Wenham as Eva Smith (the character not seen in the play), Eileen Moore as Sheila Birling, Arthur Young as Arthur Birling, Brian Worth as Gerald Croft, Olga Lindo as"
"adaptation by John Foley originally aired on the BBC World Service, starring Bob Peck as Inspector Goole, John Woodvine as Arthur Birling and Maggie Steed as Sybil Birling. The production was directed by Rosalyn Ward. A second 90-minute BBC Radio adaptation was transmitted on BBC Radio 4 on 29 May 2010 in the ""Saturday Play"" slot. It starred Toby Jones as Inspector Goole, David Calder as Arthur Birling, Frances Barber as Sybil Birling and Morven Christie as Sheila Birling. The production was directed by Jeremy Mortimer. An Inspector Calls An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J."
"ignorance and dirt and drunkenness and disease."" He moved into a new genre and became equally well known as a dramatist. ""Dangerous Corner"" (1932) was the first of many plays that would enthrall West End theatre audiences. His best-known play is ""An Inspector Calls"" (1945). His plays are more varied in tone than the novels, several being influenced by J. W. Dunne's theory of time, which plays a part in the plots of ""Dangerous Corner"" (1932) and ""Time and the Conways"". In 1940, Priestley wrote an essay for ""Horizon"" magazine, where he criticised George Bernard Shaw for his support of"
"An Inspector Calls (2015 Hong Kong film) An Inspector Calls () is a 2015 Hong Kong black comedy film directed by Raymond Wong and Herman Yau. Based on the British play, ""An Inspector Calls"", the film stars Louis Koo as Inspector Goole (renamed ""Inspector Karl"") (Pronounced ""Gaa2"" 賈 in Cantonese, which is a homophone for 假, which means fake, or false), Eric Tsang as Arthur Birling (renamed ""Kau Ming""), Teresa Mo as Sybil Birling (renamed ""Anson Kau""), Hans Zhang as Gerald Croft (renamed ""Johnnie Kei""), Gordon Lam as Eric Birling (renamed ""Tim Kau""), Chrissie Chau as Eva Smith (though the"
"character goes by various names), Karena Ng as Sheila Birling (renamed ""Sherry Kau"") and Law Lan as Edna (though unnamed in the film). In adapting the play for a Chinese audience, the film incorporates wacky, slapstick elements while retaining the original's criticism of social elites. An Inspector Calls (2015 Hong Kong film) An Inspector Calls () is a 2015 Hong Kong black comedy film directed by Raymond Wong and Herman Yau. Based on the British play, ""An Inspector Calls"", the film stars Louis Koo as Inspector Goole (renamed ""Inspector Karl"") (Pronounced ""Gaa2"" 賈 in Cantonese, which is a homophone for"
"and has had much work on television, mainly in guest character parts. Barbara Leigh-Hunt Barbara Leigh-Hunt (born 14 December 1935) is a British actress. Her numerous theate credits include Broadway productions of ""Hamlet"" (1958) and ""Sherlock Holmes"" (1974), and she won the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for the National Theatre production of ""An Inspector Calls"". Her film appearances include ""Frenzy"" (1972), ""Henry VIII and His Six Wives"" (1972), ""Bequest to the Nation"" (1973) and ""Billy Elliot"" (2000). Leigh-Hunt was born in Bath, Somerset. On stage, she has appeared in many productions as well those with the Bristol"
"Barbara Leigh-Hunt Barbara Leigh-Hunt (born 14 December 1935) is a British actress. Her numerous theate credits include Broadway productions of ""Hamlet"" (1958) and ""Sherlock Holmes"" (1974), and she won the 1993 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for the National Theatre production of ""An Inspector Calls"". Her film appearances include ""Frenzy"" (1972), ""Henry VIII and His Six Wives"" (1972), ""Bequest to the Nation"" (1973) and ""Billy Elliot"" (2000). Leigh-Hunt was born in Bath, Somerset. On stage, she has appeared in many productions as well those with the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. Her"
"Call It a Day (play) Call It a Day is a play by the British writer Dodie Smith first staged in 1935. Her most successful play, its initial West End run at the Globe Theatre lasted for 509 performances. The original cast included Owen Nares, Fay Compton, Austin Trevor, Muriel George, Patricia Hilliard, Valerie Taylor and Marie Lohr. The play was produced by the impresario Basil Dean. In 1936 it transferred to Broadway where it ran for 194 performances at the Morosco. In 1937 it was adapted into a film of the same title by the Hollywood studio Warner Brothers."
"a series of five plays. The director is Rob Ashford, the actor-director Kenneth Branagh and designer Christopher Oram. Christopher Oram Christopher Oram is a British theatre set and costume designer. He trained at the West Sussex College of Art and Design (latterly Northbrook College). Early assisting work for designers Anthony Ward and Ian MacNeil, included ""Assassins"" at the Donmar Warehouse, ""Oliver!"" at the London Palladium and ""An Inspector Calls"" and ""Machinal"" at the National Theatre. Having designed extensively on the fringe in London, he began a long term creative collaboration with the director Michael Grandage whom he met in 1995"
"which turns the play into a hit. Curtain Call (1940 film) Curtain Call is a 1940 comedy, directed by Frank Woodruff and starring Barbara Read, Helen Vinson, Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride. The film was followed by a sequel, ""Footlight Fever"", released in 1941. Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find. The producer and director conspire to give the actress a dreadful role to play from the script of ""The End of Everything"". The plot to mislead the actress, however, backfires when she loves"
"London Calling (play) London Calling is a comedy play in three acts, written by Geoffrey Kerr, produced by John Golden, and directed by Dan Jarratt. The play was first performed at Little Theatre, Rochester, New York, on October 18, 1930. The star of the original production was British-born thespian St. Clair Bayfield. Geoffrey Kerr had previously performed in ""The Stork"" (1925) and also wrote short stories on the side for ""Vanity Fair"" magazine. The comedy centres on two brothers Willie and George Craft, whose American mother and British father long have been divorced. Willie Craft has been raised in America"
"Archie Mayo directed a cast featuring Olivia de Havilland, Ian Hunter, Roland Young and Anita Louise. A 1956 German film ""The First Day of Spring"" was also inspired by the play. Call It a Day (play) Call It a Day is a play by the British writer Dodie Smith first staged in 1935. Her most successful play, its initial West End run at the Globe Theatre lasted for 509 performances. The original cast included Owen Nares, Fay Compton, Austin Trevor, Muriel George, Patricia Hilliard, Valerie Taylor and Marie Lohr. The play was produced by the impresario Basil Dean. In 1936"
"The Crucifer of Blood The Crucifer of Blood is a play by Paul Giovanni that is adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle novel ""The Sign of the Four."" It depicts the character Irene St. Claire hiring the detective Sherlock Holmes to investigate the travails that her father and his three compatriots suffered over a pact made over a cursed treasure chest in colonial India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The play, directed by the author, opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre on September 28, 1978 and ran for 236 performances. The production was nominated for four Tony"
"Single Spies Single Spies is a 1988 stage play written by English playwright Alan Bennett. It consists of two acts, An Englishman Abroad and A Question of Attribution. An Englishman Abroad is based on the true story of a chance meeting of an actress, Coral Browne, with Guy Burgess, a member of the Cambridge spy ring who worked for the Soviet Union whilst with MI6. A Question of Attribution is based on Anthony Blunt's role in the Cambridge Spy Ring and, as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, personal art advisor to Queen Elizabeth II. It portrays his interrogation by MI5"
"Gordon Harker Gordon Harker (7 August 1885 – 2 March 1967) was an English stage and film actor. he had a long career on the stage, from 1902 to the 1950s. One of the last plays he starred in was ""Small Hotel"", a popular comedy he toured in 1955. In addition, he appeared in 68 films between 1921 and 1959, including three silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and in several scenes in ""Elstree Calling"" (1930), a revue film co-directed by Hitchcock. He was known for his performance as Inspector Hornleigh in a trilogy of films produced between 1938 and"
"Gordon Harker Gordon Harker (7 August 1885 – 2 March 1967) was an English stage and film actor. he had a long career on the stage, from 1902 to the 1950s. One of the last plays he starred in was ""Small Hotel"", a popular comedy he toured in 1955. In addition, he appeared in 68 films between 1921 and 1959, including three silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock and in several scenes in ""Elstree Calling"" (1930), a revue film co-directed by Hitchcock. He was known for his performance as Inspector Hornleigh in a trilogy of films produced between 1938 and"
"The 30-minute adaptation starred Van Johnson. The play was adapted into a 1951 film of the same name. Detective Story (play) Detective Story is a 1949 play in three acts by American playwright Sidney Kingsley. The play opened on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on March 23, 1949 where it played until the production moved to the Broadhurst Theatre on July 3, 1950. The production closed on August 12, 1950 after 581 performances. The cast notably included Lydia Clarke who won a Theatre World Award for her performance. Other cast members included Ralph Bellamy as Detective Jim McLeod, Meg Mundy"
"Detective Story (play) Detective Story is a 1949 play in three acts by American playwright Sidney Kingsley. The play opened on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on March 23, 1949 where it played until the production moved to the Broadhurst Theatre on July 3, 1950. The production closed on August 12, 1950 after 581 performances. The cast notably included Lydia Clarke who won a Theatre World Award for her performance. Other cast members included Ralph Bellamy as Detective Jim McLeod, Meg Mundy as Mary McLeod, James Westerfield as Detective Lou Brody, Joan Copeland as Susan Carmichael, Harry Worth as Dr."
"Curtain Call (1940 film) Curtain Call is a 1940 comedy, directed by Frank Woodruff and starring Barbara Read, Helen Vinson, Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride. The film was followed by a sequel, ""Footlight Fever"", released in 1941. Two theatrical producers plan to get even with a demanding actress by tricking her into starring in the worst play they can find. The producer and director conspire to give the actress a dreadful role to play from the script of ""The End of Everything"". The plot to mislead the actress, however, backfires when she loves the role and gives a stellar performance,"
"jazz pianist John Donaldson. He also wrote the music and played guitar and harmonica and sang ""Spector's Blues,"" the song that played at the beginning of the second series of ""The Fall,"" episode 5 and again during Spector's dream in the car in episode 1 of season three. As of October 2016, Cubitt is working on a new British TV series as well as a play at National Theatre in London. Allan Cubitt Allan Cubitt is a British television, film, and theater writer, director, and producer, best known for his work on ""Prime Suspect II"" and ""The Fall."" In 1988,"
"also decided to let Darvi go. Morning Call (film) Morning Call (U.S. title: The Strange Case of Dr. Manning) is a 1957 British thriller film, directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Greta Gynt and Ron Randell. The rich and successful Dr. Manning is called out in the middle of the night to visit a private patient. He never returns and the next morning his wife Annette (Gynt) finds him missing. Soon after, she receives a ransom note demanding £5,000 for his release. The police are alerted and soon Annette is trying to deliver the money to various drop-off points specified"
"Morning Call (film) Morning Call (U.S. title: The Strange Case of Dr. Manning) is a 1957 British thriller film, directed by Arthur Crabtree and starring Greta Gynt and Ron Randell. The rich and successful Dr. Manning is called out in the middle of the night to visit a private patient. He never returns and the next morning his wife Annette (Gynt) finds him missing. Soon after, she receives a ransom note demanding £5,000 for his release. The police are alerted and soon Annette is trying to deliver the money to various drop-off points specified by the kidnapper in telephone calls"
"Peter Moffat Peter Moffat is an English playwright and screenwriter. His first play was called ""Fine and Private Place"" and was broadcast on BBC Radio in 1997. His best-known plays are ""Nabokov's Gloves"" and ""Iona Rain"". Moffat is a former barrister; one of his early commissions was for an episode of ""Kavanagh QC"". He has since created three British television legal dramas: ""North Square"", ""Criminal Justice"" and ""Silk"". He also wrote the miniseries ""Cambridge Spies"" and the television film ""Einstein and Eddington"", as well as a reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's ""Macbeth"" for the BBC's ""ShakespeaRe-Told"" series. Moffat wrote the historical"
"as Wali Dad, Kaleem Janjua as Durga Das, and James Coyle as Birdy Johnson, and was directed by Heston's son Fraser Clarke Heston. The Crucifer of Blood The Crucifer of Blood is a play by Paul Giovanni that is adapted from the Arthur Conan Doyle novel ""The Sign of the Four."" It depicts the character Irene St. Claire hiring the detective Sherlock Holmes to investigate the travails that her father and his three compatriots suffered over a pact made over a cursed treasure chest in colonial India during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The play, directed by the author, opened"
"Ken Campbell Kenneth Victor Campbell (10 December 1941 – 31 August 2008) was an English writer, actor, director and comedian known for his work in experimental theatre. He has been called ""a one-man dynamo of British theatre."" Campbell achieved notoriety in the 1970s for his nine-hour adaptation of the science-fiction trilogy ""Illuminatus!"" and his 22-hour staging of Neil Oram's play cycle ""The Warp"". The ""Guinness Book of Records"" listed the latter as the longest play in the world. ""The Independent"" said that, ""In the 1990s, through a series of sprawling monologues packed with arcane information and freakish speculations on the"
"or comedy-dramas. More recent productions are listed below and include ""No Sex Please, We're British"" (1982), which played for four years at the theatre before transferring to the Duchess Theatre in 1986. In 1995, the Royal National Theatre's multi-award-winning production of J. B. Priestley's ""An Inspector Calls"" opened here, having played successful seasons at the Royal National Theatre's Lyttelton and Olivier theatres as well as the Aldwych Theatre and a season on Broadway. In 1986, the Garrick was acquired by the Stoll Moss Group, and in 2000 it became a ""Really Useful Theatre"" when Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group"
"Lewis was found late one night seriously ill in Gray's Inn Road and was taken to the Royal Free Hospital where he died on 23 February 1890. Leopold Davis Lewis Leopold Davis Lewis (1828 – 23 February 1890), was an English dramatist. Lewis was born in London and educated at the King's College School, and upon graduation became a solicitor, practising as such from 1850 to 1875. In 1871, he translated Erckmann-Chatrian's ""Le Juif Polonais"", giving it the name ""The Bells"", under which name it was produced by Henry Irving at the Lyceum Theatre, London, 25 November 1871 and repeatedly"
"Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park; Claudius in ""Hamlet"" (1993) and Torvald Helmer in ""A Doll's House"" (1994) for the English Touring Theatre; The Inspector in ""An Inspector Calls"" (1996–1997) at the Garrick Theatre, Count Orsini Rosenberg in ""Amadeus"" (1999) at The Old Vic, Friar Laurence in ""Romeo and Juliet"" (2002) for Theatr Clywd, Mr. Kipps in ""The Woman in Black"" (2003) at the Fortune Theatre, Wackford Squeers/Sir Mulbery Hawk in ""Nicholas Nickleby"" (2006), for the Chichester Festival Theatre and which transferred in December 2007 and January 2008 to the Gielgud Theatre; Barnardo/Player King/Gravedigger in ""Hamlet"" (2011–2012) at the Young Vic,"