{"id":10039,"date":"2018-11-22T13:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T21:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=10039"},"modified":"2019-02-13T08:46:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T16:46:41","slug":"j-b-priestleys-iconic-mystery-thriller-an-inspector-calls-on-stage-at-the-wallis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/j-b-priestleys-iconic-mystery-thriller-an-inspector-calls-on-stage-at-the-wallis\/","title":{"rendered":"J.B. Priestley\u2019s Iconic Mystery Thriller \u2013 \u201cAn Inspector Calls\u201d \u2013 On Stage at The Wallis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <b>J.P. Priestley\u2019s<\/b> multi award winning chestnut <b>\u201cAn Inspector Calls\u201d<\/b> makes its way across the pond, one cannot restrain one\u2019s excitement at anticipating director <b>Stephen Daldry\u2019s<\/b> restaging of <b>The National Theatre of Great Britain\u2019s 1992 <\/b>landmark production. Assembling a top-notch <b>British<\/b> cast, whose excellent work is enhanced by the technical components, the production delivers an overall exciting theatrical experience.\u00a0\u00a0 The creative team consists of <b>Ian MacNeil\u2019s<\/b> set and luscious costume design, <b>Rick Fisher\u2019s<\/b> moody lighting, <b>Stephen Warbeck\u2019s<\/b> music, and <b>Sebastian Frost\u2019s<\/b> sound design.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10035\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10035\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10035\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Birling-Family-Home.jpg\" alt=\"home of the aristocratic Birling family from the play 'An Inspector Calls'\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Birling-Family-Home.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Birling-Family-Home-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Birling-Family-Home-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Birling-Family-Home-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The fog enshrouded home of the aristocratic Birling family.<\/span> Photo: Mark Douet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Before the action begins, the curtain is down and a young boy fiddles with it. There might be some sort of symbolism as in \u201cthe child may lead them,\u201d but honestly his role was unclear.\u00a0 The curtain is finally raised and we catch a glimpse of a fairytale house perched high above the stage and enshrouded in thick fog.\u00a0 We hear the muffled conversation of people clearly from the upper class of society who are enjoying what sounds like a celebration in their \u201cposh\u201d dining room.\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t help thinking of two old saws: \u201cIt was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents &#8211; except at occasional interval<em>.\u201d<\/em> First conjured up by the <strong>English Victorian<\/strong> novelist, playwright, and politician <strong>Sir Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton,<\/strong> the line became synonymous with the <strong>Victorian <\/strong>melodramatic style of theatre.\u00a0 When the interior of the home is finally revealed, the second old saw that sprung to mind was, \u201cThere was once a woman who lived in a shoe with so many children she didn\u2019t know what to do.\u201d\u00a0 Why, you may ask, would I think of that?\u00a0 The reason is five formally attired adult members of this aristocratic family are crammed into a space so tiny, that in order to deliver their lines, the actors had to actually crawl through a window or climb over a small balcony fence.\u00a0 Below is the large, basically unused stage.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 I get the symbolism.\u00a0 Although crammed into this tiny space, they are still above the masses.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10034\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10034\" style=\"width: 528px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10034\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Liam-Brennan-as-Inspector-Goole.jpg\" alt=\"Liam Brennan as Inspector Goole in 'An Inspector Calls'\" width=\"528\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Liam-Brennan-as-Inspector-Goole.jpg 528w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Liam-Brennan-as-Inspector-Goole-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The mysterious Inspector Goole played by Liam Brennan.<\/span> Photo: Mark Douet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a special night in the year <strong>1912.<\/strong> The <strong>Birling<\/strong> family consists of <strong>Arthur<\/strong> <strong>Birling,<\/strong><strong> <em>(Jeff<\/em> <em>Harmer)<\/em><\/strong> a wealthy industrialist and former <strong>Lord Mayor<\/strong> and his upper-class wife, <strong>Sybil <\/strong><strong><em>(Christine Kavanagh)<\/em><\/strong> and their troubled son <strong>Eric <em>(<\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Hamish<\/em><\/strong><em> <strong>Riddle).<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 They have gathered to celebrate the engagement of <strong>Arthur <\/strong>and <strong>Sybil\u2019s <\/strong>daughter <strong>Sheila <em>(Lianne Harvey)<\/em> to<\/strong> <strong>Gerald Croft<\/strong><strong> <em>(Andrew Macklin)<\/em><\/strong> a successful businessman who dad hopes will take good care of his daughter financially as well as enhancing their business dealings.\u00a0\u00a0 Rounding out this wonderful cast is the devoted housekeeper <strong>Edna <em>(Diana Payne-Myers)<\/em><\/strong> who is fiercely dedicated to the needs of the family and unwittingly or maybe wittingly provides comic relief given some of the amusing stage business assigned to her by the director. The celebratory ambiance begins to slowly change as a man in a raincoat suddenly arrives claiming to be the <strong>Inspector General <em>(Liam Brennan)<\/em><\/strong> who has come to interview the family about the recent suicide death of a young woman named <strong>Eva Smith.<\/strong>\u00a0 At first dad denies knowing her at all, until the inspector points out that she actually worked in his factory but was fired because of leading a strike for higher wages.\u00a0 <strong>Arthur <\/strong>begins to slowly recollect who she is and insists that he bears no responsibility for her death.\u00a0 The Inspector shows her photo and reads excerpts from <strong>Eva\u2019s <\/strong>diary to the newly engaged <strong>Sheila <\/strong>who finally confesses that she was shopping in a store where <strong>Eva<\/strong> was employed and didn\u2019t like her attitude so she had her fired. So now it\u2019s mummy\u2019s turn and after some prodding, she recollects that the pregnant <strong>Eva <\/strong>sought help from the charity which she chaired but advised the committee to turn her down. <strong>Sheila\u2019s<\/strong> fianc\u00e9e also had an encounter with her and finally we find out that she was carrying <strong>Eric\u2019s <\/strong>baby. One by one, members of this refined family confess their relationship to the dead woman and have to reach into their collective conscience to acknowledge their share of the blame for this tragedy.\u00a0 The family is devastated by all the revelations and after being told that the body is in the morgue, the <strong>Inspector,<\/strong> who interviewed with the accuracy of a sharp surgical knife, finally takes his leave.\u00a0 <strong>Dad<\/strong> decides to check on the <strong>Inspector\u2019s<\/strong> story and calls the police to see if such a body has shown up. Good news.\u00a0 No such body exists \u2013 at least at that particular moment, but wait, the family is in for yet another shocking revelation.\u00a0 If they weren\u2019t such worms, you would almost feel sorry for them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10038\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10038\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hamish-Riddle-Lianne-Harvey.jpg\" alt=\"Hamish Riddle and Lianne Harvey in 'An Inspector Calls'\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hamish-Riddle-Lianne-Harvey.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hamish-Riddle-Lianne-Harvey-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hamish-Riddle-Lianne-Harvey-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Hamish-Riddle-Lianne-Harvey-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">L-R: Eric Birling (Hamish Riddle) with his sister Sheila (Lianne Harvey).<\/span> Photo: Mark Douet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Priestly <\/strong>is an excellent storyteller and like a good <strong>Agatha Christie<\/strong> mystery, slowly peels away the layers of lies and deceptions practiced by this family devoid of a deep moral structure.\u00a0 The superb cast, under <strong>Daldry\u2019s <\/strong>crack direction, keeps you on the edge of your seat as the truth is slowly unraveled.\u00a0\u00a0 As you watch the action unfold, you might wonder who the group of silent spectators are standing stage right.\u00a0\u00a0 I would venture a guess that they are somewhat like a <strong>Greek<\/strong> chorus observing the behavior unfolding before them and serving as a reminder that life at the top is not reflected by life at the \u201cbottom.\u201d Perhaps it was the playwright\u2019s intention to illuminate the sometimes cold, callous, despicable behavior foisted on the lower classes.\u00a0 I guess in some ways, this play written in <strong>1945,<\/strong> is a cautionary tale of the consequences of the indifference to human suffering if that human is not in your social class.\u00a0 Seems very politically timely, don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10037\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10037\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10037\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Greek-Chorus.jpg\" alt=\"Liam Brennan as Inspector Goole with a 'Greek Chorus'\" width=\"850\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Greek-Chorus.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Greek-Chorus-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Greek-Chorus-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Greek-Chorus-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Liam Brennan as Inspector Goole with a \u201cGreek Chorus\u201d of the town\u2019s people eerily observing the action.<\/span> Photo: Mark Douet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>An Inspector Calls<\/em><br \/>\nWallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts<br \/>\nBram Goldsmith Theater<br \/>\n9390 N. Santa Monica Boulevard<br \/>\nBeverly Hills, CA 90210<\/p>\n<p>Run:<br \/>\nTuesday-Friday:\u00a0 7:30pm<br \/>\nSaturdays:\u00a0 2:00pm &amp; 7:30 pm<br \/>\nSundays:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2:00pm &amp; 7:00pm<br \/>\nClosing: February 10, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Tickets: $35 to $105 (prices subject to change)<\/p>\n<p>310.746.4000 or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thewallis.org\/Inspector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheWallis.org\/Inspector<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Running Time:\u00a0 1 hour &amp; 45 minutes with no intermission<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When J.P. Priestley\u2019s multi award winning chestnut \u201cAn Inspector Calls\u201d makes its way across the pond, one cannot restrain one\u2019s excitement at anticipating director Stephen Daldry\u2019s restaging of The National Theatre of Great Britain\u2019s 1992 landmark production. Assembling a top-notch British cast, whose excellent work is enhanced by the technical components, the production delivers an overall exciting theatrical experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2021,2024,2025,2022,2023,2027,2026,1876],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-an-inspector-calls","tag-christine-kavanagh","tag-hamish-riddle","tag-j-p-priestley","tag-jeff-harmer","tag-liam-brennan","tag-lianne-harvey","tag-theatre"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>J.B. 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