An Inspector Calls

An Inspector Calls is a 1945 stage play by J. B. Priestley. Set in the drawing room of a well-off English family, their evening at home is interrupted by a police inspector. The inspector questions them about the death by suicide of a working class girl, revealing that each member of the family circle had in some way mistreated or failed to help her. The play critiqued class and posed questions about society's moral obligation to those in need.
The play has come to be considered a classic and, in addition to periodic major stage revivals, has been adapted multiple times for film, TV, and radio.
==References==
* Although not used on screen, "An Inspector Calls" is the script title for a scene in Sesame Street Episode 1297. In this case, it's a Grouch vehicle inspector calling on Oscar.
==Connections==
*Chris Marquette played a boy in the 1994 Broadway production
*Bob Peck played Inspector Goole in a 1998 BBC Radio version
*Miranda Richardson played Sybil Birling in a 2015 TV movie
*Patrick Stewart played Gerald Croft in a 1964 BBC Radio version
*Richard Wilson directed a 1986 UK production
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