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In 1945, J. B. Priestley premiered (in the USSR!) this potboiler drawing-room drama. It achieved new fame via a 1992 revival at London’s National Theatre, a well-received touring production in the UK and US, and then a 2015 film.
It’s an evening in the drawing room of the wealthy industrialist Arthur Birling’s family, where they are celebrating the engagement of their daughter, Sheila, to Gerald Croft, the son of another manufacturing family. Mr. Birley is your classic haw-haw self-satisfied Engl ...more
It’s an evening in the drawing room of the wealthy industrialist Arthur Birling’s family, where they are celebrating the engagement of their daughter, Sheila, to Gerald Croft, the son of another manufacturing family. Mr. Birley is your classic haw-haw self-satisfied Engl ...more
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The Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila when a police Inspector calls. Each member of the family is questioned about their relationship with a young woman, Eva Smith. And they each have to face up to their role in her tragic story.
The Birlings are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila when a police Inspector calls. Each member of the family is questioned about their relationship with a young woman, Eva Smith. And they each have to face up to their role in her tragic story.
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