A Word from the Director
by Sue Ellen Nelsen

Some of you may remember The Twilight Zone, an American weekly television program. Each episode was a mixture of fantasy and science fiction, usually with an unexpected ending. Although this is a British play set in the industrial town of Brumley in 1912, JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls has many of the same elements of that series.

The characters are wonderful and fully drawn. The Birling family represent the upper class and its predisposition to be self-involved and neglectful of the lower classes. But there is a division between the generations, with hope for change expressed by the young adults. Edna, their maid, is representative of the lower class.