Best adaptation ever (An Inspector Calls)

Member Name: indigo

Product:	An Inspector Calls
Date:	07/07/00 (475 review reads)
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Advantages: great setting, great story, brilliant

Disadvantages: acting is a bit OTT

I studied this classic play by JB Priestley for my English literature GCSE, and I wasn't particularly excited. It involves a middle class family in 1912 who are oblivious to the social and political change around them. Their life is shattered when a mysterious inspector appears and questions them about the death of Eva, a factory worker. The plot grows more complex as each member of the family is implicated in her death. However, because all the action of Eva's life occurs off stage, productions can be dull. This adaptation is BRILLIANT. The set is eerie and menacing, with the Edwardian house perched precariously over the war-torn London of the first world war, and the plot is emphasised by symbolic movements of the house, and the actions of the characters. It is impossible to describe! The Garrick is a very small, intimate theatre, and you are totally drawn in to the action. Everyone in my class loved the play, and I'm taking my parents to see it again next week! Go AND SEE IT! Its been running 9 years I think, and won loads of awards. It deserves them.

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