An Inspector Calls

Stephen Daldry’s record breaking and multi-award winning production for the National Theatre of An Inspector Calls returns after a sell-out London season and American tour.

Daldry’s visionary, radical, challenging version of JB Priestley’s classic thriller, hailed as the theatrical event of its generation, has been seen by more than 4 million people worldwide.

When Inspector Goole arrives unexpectedly at the prosperous Birling family home, their peaceful dinner party is shattered by his investigations into the death of a young woman. His startling revelations shake the very foundations of their lives and challenge us all to examine our consciences.

Following a successful US tour in 2018-2019, An Inspector Calls toured England/Scotland beginning September 2019 and will return to North America in a future season.

More relevant now than ever, this is a must-see for a whole new generation of theatregoers.

Booked in conjunction with Tim Smith, Pemberley Productions.

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Reviews

“ELEGANT…an evening of many dark and twisting delights.” –The Washington Post

The Washington Post

“ENTERTAINING…a brilliantly inventive staging.”

Washington Blade

“RIVETING…a thrilling expressionistic masterpiece.”

Talkin’ Broadway

“Priestley’s theatrical warhorse has all the elements of an engrossing whodunit.”

LA Times

“An engaging throwback with gob-smacking design by Ian MacNeil and inventive staging by Daldry.”

Hollywood Reporter

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“Superbly tense. Breathtaking daring and faultless execution.”

Daily Telegraph

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“Did any stage-revival in the Nineties take more risks, cause more jaws to drop or do more to shake people awake to the transformative power of theatre than Stephen Daldry’s radical re-visioning of J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls? Yet here it is again, after all the awards and transfers and tours, back in town for an eight-week run, and it has pulled off another knock-out surprise.”

Daily Telegraph

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“Ever-green fresh. No other revival in this decade has come close to matching its breath-taking daring and faultless execution.”

Daily Telegraph

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“This Inspector has triumphed over time.”

Daily Telegraph

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“Visually astonishing.”

Daily Express

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“Seeing it again on its return to London re-enforces what an amazing, expressionist vision Daldry had but also what fantastic material he had to work with.”

Daily Express

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“Daldry’s production, so experimental and yet so close to the spirit of Priestley, is still the star of the show.”

Daily Express

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“A riveting examination of conscience and class.”

Sunday Express

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“With an incredible set like a giant doll’s house on stilts that unfolds to reveal the family drawing room, the epic and the intimate are finely tuned to magnify our attention on their shifting guilt and Daldry’s production is a riveting examination of conscience and class.”

Sunday Express

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“As fresh and mesmerising as it was 17 years ago. For first timers it’s a three-act feast of the unexpected.”

WhatsOnStage.com

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“The star of the show has always been Ian MacNeil’s extraordinary set, an unfolding doll’s house on stilts amid the post-apocalyptic ruins. Its cramped scale mocks the Birlings’ social values, while its shock transformation in the third act remains a landmark coup de theatre: once seen, never forgotten.”

WhatsOnStage.com

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

“Thrilling. Don’t dare miss it!”

Daily Mail

★ ★ ★ ★

“The production grips and dazzles. Nerve-shreddingly exciting. Still heart-thumpingly thrilling.”

The Times

★ ★ ★ ★

“Stephen Daldry’s extraordinary reinvention of J. B. Priestley’s classic has lost none of its fierce pertinence. More than 15 years after its first appearance at the National Theatre in 1992, it’s still heart-thumpingly thrilling.”

The Times

★ ★ ★ ★

“The production grips and dazzles. Rain teems down; Stephen Warbeck’s music, thunderous with foreboding, is as nerve-shreddingly exciting as a Bernard Hermann score for a Hitchcock movie.”

The Times

★ ★ ★ ★

“Ian MacNeil’s design is as impressive as ever, the cacophonous collapse of the Birling home as the family’s shameful secrets are exposed is a stunning coup de théâtre.”

The Times