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Stephen Daldry’s award-laden production of
J.B Priestley’s classic thriller, AN INSPECTOR CALLS,
returns to Woking
Winning more awards than any other play in history, Stephen Daldry’s epic West End and
Broadway production of J.B Priestley’s classic thriller An Inspector Calls returns to the New
Victoria Theatre, Woking from Tuesday 21 to Saturday 25 April.
World-renowned British stage and film director, Stephen Daldry (Billy Eliott stage and film, The
Hours) has recently been back in the spotlight with his latest film, The Reader, for which he
received a BAFTA nomination for Best Director and which won Kate Winslett an Oscar and a
Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. Back in 1992 it was his visionary revival of An
Inspector Calls which gave Daldry his first major directorial success and was the production
which launched his astonishingly successful career. An Inspector Calls opened at the National
Theatre to huge acclaim and Daldry and his creative team were rewarded with three Olivier
Awards, two Evening Standard Awards and a host of five-star reviews. The show was hailed as
the definitive production of J B Priestley’s much-loved play.
Following its success at the National, An Inspector Calls transferred to the West End for two
years, before touring around the world. In 1993 the production transferred to Broadway and won
an unprecedented string of awards for a play, including four Tony Awards. Clocking up a total of
19 major international awards since opening, this production has played to audiences across
Australia, the United States, Japan, Europe and Britain, including five major UK tours and a
return West End season that successfully ran for over eight years.
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Written at the end of the Second World War and set before the First, An Inspector Calls is a
brilliantly compelling and haunting drama by one of this country’s leading post-war dramatists. An
immensely popular play, Priestley’s masterpiece repeatedly features as a curriculum text for
GCSE English Literature, studied by pupils throughout the land. The story begins when the
mysterious Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family home. Their
peaceful dinner party is shattered by his investigations into the death of a young woman whom
each of them in turn has exploited. His startling revelations not only shatter the very foundations
of their lives but challenge us all to examine our consciences. Daldry’s visionary production
ingeniously unites the 1912 setting with the time it was written in 1945, transfering the play to a
dramatic cobblestone war-torn wasteland, where the Edwardian Birling family home looms
precariously, suspended on stilts.
The production features the stunningly inventive set designs by Ian MacNeil, a sweeping score
by Stephen Warbeck and atmospheric lighting by Rick Fisher, which, together with Daldry’s
compelling direction ensures the production is a theatrical treat. For the 2009 UK tour, original
National Theatre cast member, Louis Hilyer, returns to the production, this time playing the role
of the chilling Inspector Goole having played the son Gerald in the original production.
ENDS
Performance times and ticket information:
Tuesday 21 – Saturday 25 April
Tue – Sat eves 7.30pm. Wed, Thu & Sat matinees 2.30pm
Tickets from £11
Box Office 0870 060 6645
Group Booking Line 01483 545955
On-line Booking www.ambassadorstickets.com/woking
Press Night – Tuesday 21 April
For more information, interviews and images please contact Gillian Keyworth
on 01483 545822, [email protected]