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    • Our People >
      • Meet The Founder
      • Actors
      • Associate Directors
      • Production Crew
  • Support The Gate
    • Become A Member
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      • Our 2018-19 Season Sponsors
    • Advertise In Our Programs
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    • Buy Tickets
  • Workshops
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  • Past Shows
    • Harvey
    • An Inspector Calls
    • Fringe Festival 2019
    • Pirates of Chemotherapy
    • The Amen Corner
    • Almost Maine
    • Starry Messenger
    • Big Hunk O' Burning Love
    • Into the Light
    • The Exonerated
    • Land of Smiles
    • Christmas Choir
    • The Laramie Project
    • Steel Magnolias
    • A Comedy Showcase
    • Space
    • Blithe Spirit
    • Driving Miss Daisy
    • The Eight Reindeer Monologues
    • The Odd Couple
    • Three Takes
    • Strange Snow
    • The Gin Game
    • The Dodo Bird
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AN Inspector Calls
December 2019

J B Priestley’s play, An Inspector Calls, first performed in 1945, is a morality play disguised as a detective thriller. The morality play is a very old theatrical form, going back to the medieval period, which sought to instruct audiences about virtue and evil.

​Priestley’s play revolves around a central mystery, the death of a young woman, but whereas a traditional detective story involves the narrowing down of suspects from several to one, An Inspector Calls inverts this process as, one by one, nearly all the characters in the play are found to be guilty. In this way, Priestley makes his larger point that society is guilty of neglecting and abusing its most vulnerable members. A just society, he states through his mysterious Inspector, is one that respects and exercises social responsibility.
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