Inspector Goole

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o                                                                                                     1st September 1946

Mr.E Smith

New Theatre

Shaftsbury

LONON WCI

Dear Mr. Smith,

      Thank you for letting me see the rehearsal of my play “An Inspector Calls” If you would allow me I would like to offer some advice on how you could stage the key scenes between Mr. Birling and Inspector Goole in ACT 2.

     As you are aware the play is set in a fairly large Suburban House belonging to a prosperous manufacturer that goes by the name of Arthur Birling. They (the characters) are in the living room of the Birlings house in Brumley an industrial city in the North Midlands. It is an evening in spring 1912 and the main characters of Arthur, Sybil, Eric, Sheila Birling and Gerald Croft are all celebrating Sheila’s engagement to Gerald Croft an aristocrat and are socially superior to the Birlings. In the dining room there is laughter, teasing comments and moving speeches however, suddenly the joyful atmosphere is torn apart by the dramatic intrusion of a harsh figure. As the night progresses under interrogation every member turns out to have a shameful secret that link them to the horrendous death of Eva Smith/ Daisy Renton.

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     The reason why I chose the key scene between Mrs. Birling and Inspector Goole in Act 2 from the line “If you bear me pressure to bear upon me, you’re quite mistaken. P44 to “Mother- I begged and begged you to stop” P49 is because of the combination of high drama and emotion of this scene. The main character in scene two is Mrs. Birling. It is clear from the start of the play that Mrs.Birling is not a character that we will like; she is portrayed as being cold and snobbish. She is obviously from a higher ...

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