An Inspector Calls
Stephen Daldry’s award winning production of ‘An Inspector Calls’ is to become a London show again. It returns to the West End later this year and will run at the Novello Theatre from the 22nd September 2009.
Daldry’s original production was first staged at the National Theatre and already has a track record in the West End. After the National, it played at the Aldwych Theatre and on Broadway. It ran at the Garrick Theatre from October 1995 until April 2001. It then opened on the 20th of September 2001 at the Playhouse Theatre where it closed on the 11th of May 2002.
The show has also toured extensively and finishes its current trip around the UK in Leicester in June. The casting for the new run has yet to be announced.
The play by J B Priestley, written in 1946, tells the story of the Birling family whose celebration of their daughter’s engagement is thrown into disarray when the strangely knowledgeable Inspector Goole arrives.
The revival has clocked up over 4000 performances and won 19 major awards including four Tonys and three Oliviers. The show is designed by Ian MacNeil. Music is by Stephen Warbeck and lighting by Rick Fisher.