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Stephen Daldry’s multi award-winning production of J.B Priestley’s

An Inspector Calls

embarks on a major national tour

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An Inspector Calls

Tue 15 – Sat 19 Nov

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Press Night – Tue 15 Nov

Direct from its triumphant success in the West End last year, Stephen Daldry’s multi award-winning production of J.B Priestley’s classic thriller AN INSPECTOR CALLS embarks on its seventh major UK tour this autumn. Opening at Leicester Curve on 22 September AN INSPECTOR CALLS will tour to a further nine UK venues until 10 December. The production will then continue to tour throughout the spring of 2012, dates to be announced.

Director Stephen Daldry, now triple Oscar nominated for his films The Reader (starring Kate Winslett, Ralph Fiennes), The Hours (starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) and Billy Elliot (starring Jamie Bell), won his first major directorial success in 1992 when his visionary revival of J.B. Priestley’s AN INSPECTOR CALLS opened at the National Theatre to outstanding critical acclaim. Featuring Ian MacNeil’s ingenious designs, a sweeping score by Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love) and atmospheric lighting by Rick Fisher, the production has received an unprecedented string of awards – a total of 19 major international awards - including the Olivier Award for Best Revival, Best Director and Best Designer and the Tony Award on Broadway for Best Revival, Best Director and Best Lighting.

AN INSPECTOR CALLS now returns on tour following its phenomenal success in the West End last year where, once again, the production proved a smash hit with critics and audiences alike. Winning a host of new five-star reviews and enjoying sell-out performances, the production extended its initial eight-week run at the Novello Theatre with a further sixteen weeks at the Wyndham’s, playing until March 2010.

The longest running play revival in history, Stephen Daldry’s AN INSPECTOR CALLS has played in the West End (including an eight-year run), on Broadway, across Australia, the United States, Japan and Europe and has currently completed six major UK tours. The production is widely renowned as the theatrical event of our generation, now seen by an excess of two million theatregoers worldwide.

Written at the end of the Second World War and set before the First, J.B Priestley’s AN INSPECTOR CALLS is a compelling and haunting thriller. 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 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 2011-12 UK tour cast includes: Tom Mannion as Inspector Goole, Geoff Leesley as Mr Birling, Karen Archer as Mrs Birling, Kelly Hotten as Sheila Birling, Henry Gilbert as Eric Birling, John Sackville as Gerald and Janie Booth as Edna. Directed by Stephen Daldry, AN INSPECTOR CALLS is designed by Ian MacNeil, with lighting by Rick Fisher, music by Stephen Warbeck and Associate Director Julian Webber. The National Theatre Production is produced on tour by PW Productions Ltd in association with Oliver Royds.

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