Audiences have just a few weeks left to see Stephen Daldry's multi award-winning production of JB Priestley's classic drama An Inspector Calls at the Wyndhams Theatre. The show must close on 13th March 2010, after a strictly limited season.
Following its initial success at the National Theatre, Stephen Daldry's production of An Inspector Calls transferred to the West End for two years, prior to a world tour. In 1993 the production opened on Broadway, winning an unprecedented string of awards including four Tony Awards. Winning a total of 19 major awards since it first opened, this landmark production has played in Australia, the United States, Japan and Europe, and as well as its first West End run, has completed six major UK tours and a return visit to the West End which lasted for over eight years. Well in excess of 2 million theatergoers have watched the production at nearly 5000 performances.
Stephen Daldry returned to direct the revival with a cast featuring Nicholas Woodeson as Inspector Goole, David Roper as Arthur Birling, Sandra Duncan as Sybil Birling, Marianne Oldham as Sheila Birling, Robin Whiting as Eric Birling and Timothy Watson as Gerald Croft.
Written at the end of the Second World War and set before the First, An Inspector Calls is a compelling and haunting thriller. The story begins when the mysterious Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family home. Their peaceful family dinner party is shattered by his investigations into the death of a young woman.
An Inspector Calls at the Novello Theatre 2009. Photo by Robert Day
Nicholas Woodeson (Inspector) in An Inspector Calls at the Novello Theatre 2009. Photo by Robert Day
An Inspector Calls at the Novello Theatre 2009 Photo by Robert Day
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