aninspectorcalls

[aninspectorcalls]

Birling: ...there's a lot of wild talk about possible labour trouble in the near future. Don't worry. We've passed the worst of it

#arthur birling #arthur birling - capitalism #capitalism #capitalism vs socialism #dramatic irony

[aninspectorcalls]

Birling: there's a good deal of silly talk about these days - but - and I speak as a hard headed businessman, who has to take risks and know what he's about - I say, you can ignore all this silly pessimistic talk.

#arthur birling #arthur birling - capitalism #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

Birling: Your father and I have been friendly rivals in business for some time now - although Croft's Limited are both older and bigger that Birling and Company - and now you've brought us together, and perhaps we may look forward to the time when Crofts and Birlings are no longer competing but working together - for lower costs and higher prices!

#arthur birling #arthur birling - capitalism #capitalism #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

Mrs. B: What an expression, Sheila! Really the things you girls pick up these days!

#sybil birling #sheila birling #sybil birling - class #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

Mrs. B: When you're married you'll realise that men with important work to do and sometimes have to spend nearly all their rime and energy on ther business.

Sheila: I don't believe I will.

#sybil birling #sheila birling #sybil birling - class

[aninspectorcalls]

Sheila: (half serious, half playful) Yes, except from all of last summer, when you never came near me, and I wondered what had happened to you.

#sheila birling #gerald croft #foreshadowing #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

Mrs. B: Arthur, you're not supposed to say such things-

#sybil birling #the class system #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

[The Birlings and Gerald] are celebrating a special occasion, and are pleased with themselves.

#the birlings #stage directions #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

ERIC is in his early twenties, not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive.

#eric birling #stage directions #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

GERALD CROFT is an attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about-town.

#gerald croft #stage directions #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

SHEILA is a pretty girl in her early twenties, very pleased with life and rather excited.

#sheila birling #sheila birling - naivety #stage directions #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

ARTHUR BIRLING is a heavy-looking, rather portentous man in his middle fifties with fairly easy manners but rather provincial in his speech.

#arthur birling #stage directions #the class system #arthur birling - class #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

The lighting should be pink and intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives, and then it should be brighter and harder.

#inspector goole #stage directions #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

The general effect is substantial and heavily comfortable, but not cosy and homelike.

#the birlings #set #stage directions #act one

[aninspectorcalls]

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