An Inspector Calls

Fri Mar 04, 2016

20:00

Location

THOC Warehouse
Kampou 29
Strovolos, Nicosia 2030

Kimon Xylotymbou
Phone: 99666806

Description

The Theatrical Group Kimon Xylotymbou presents in Nicosia the play "An Inspector Calls" of the English dramatist J. B. Priestley. All proceeds from the performance will go to charity.

The play is a three-act drama, which takes place on a single night in April 1912, focusing on the prosperous upper middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in the fictional town of Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands". The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman, Eva Smith (also known as Daisy Renton). The family are interrogated and revealed to have been responsible for the young woman's exploitation, abandonment and social ruin, effectively leading to her death. Long considered part of the repertory of classic "drawing room" theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing critique of the hypocrisies of Victorian/Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley's Socialist political principles.


(in Greek)