Play An Inspector Calls

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Bay Village Historical Society

2024.17.05

2024.17.05

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Play "An Inspector Calls"

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2024.17.05

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Bay Players present 24th season an inspector call / j.b. priestly p.1 From Our President... Isabel K. Bricker A Capsule History of Bay Players p.5 A flow chart of organization for production p. 7 The Bay Village Players, Incorporated / Officers p. 9 workshop p. 10 Bay Players Building Fund Campaign... p. 11 Comments from Ways and means... p. 13 Committees.... p. 14 Yet to Come... p. 17 Something on Membership... BAY / VILLAGE / PLAYERS / fall production "an inspector calls" a psychological mystery / by j.b.priestly Under the Direction of LOUIS P. KRAUSS Bay Village High School Auditorium TUESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY EVENINGS NOVEMBER 20th, 23rd,& 24th, 1951, at 8:30 O'CLOCK p.21 CAST Howard English Ed Aukens Helen Ross Arth Juanita English Norma Huey Dick Abell Tom Fletcher SYNOPSIS OF SCENES All Three Acts, which are continuous, take place on the terrace adjoining the Birlings' house in Brumley, an industrial city in North Midland. THE TIME: A Summer Evening p. 23 For this production (those who assisted) 65 names listed for various jobs, some more than once. p. 25, 27 Cast Chat...And Our Director... p. 29 Property Credits... p. 31 Be sure to bear in mind... Numerous companies and businesses listed who supported the play. They are indexed on p. 32. An Inspector Calls is a modern morality play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. It is one of Priestley's best-known works for the stage and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. The play's success and reputation were boosted by a successful revival by English director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre in 1992 and a tour of the UK in 2011–2012. The play is a three-act drama which takes place on a single night on 5 April 1912. The play focuses on the prosperous upper middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in the fictional town of Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands." The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole (otherwise known as 'The Inspector'), who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman in her mid-twenties. Long considered part of the repertory of classic drawing-room theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing criticism of the hypocrisies of Victorian and Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley's socialist political principles. The play is notable amongst students as many British schools study it as one of the prescribed texts for the GCSE English Literature course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Inspector_Calls

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Aukens, Ed

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Fletcher, Tom

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Huey, Norma

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Krauss, Louis P.

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