NEWS TICKER
An Inspector Calls UK Tour
Published on
June 15, 2018
By
douglasmayo
J B Priestley's An Inspector Calls is currently on tour until May 2020. Full tour schedule - dates and tickets below!
Stephen Daldry's seminal production of Priestley's classic An Inspector Calls has won theatre awards globally including four Tony Awards and three Olivier Awards, playing to over 4 million theatre-goers.
Written at the end of the Second World War and set before the First, 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, shattering their peaceful family dinner party with his investigations into the death of a young woman.
Liam Brennan will play ‘Inspector Goole’, Christine Kavanagh ‘Mrs Birling’, Jeff Harmer ‘Mr Birling’, Alisdair Buchan‘Gerald Croft’, Chloe Orrock ‘Sheila Birling’, Ryan Saunders ‘Eric Birling’ and Diana Payne-Myers ‘Edna’. The cast is completed by Michael Ross, Portia Booroff, Elissa Churchill and Jonathan Davenport.
JB Priestley’s brilliantly constructed masterpiece powerfully dramatises the dangers of casual capitalism’s cruelty, complacency and hypocrisy.
The An Inspector Calls Tour is directed by the world-renowned theatre and film director Stephen Daldry. Stephen’s many theatre credits include “The Audience”, “Skylight” and “Billy Elliot The Musical”. His film credits include “The Hours”, “The Reader” and “Billy Elliot”, all of which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director. Most recently he has directed several episodes of the Netflix smash hit series “The Crown”, for which he is also Producer.
An Inspector Calls is designed by Ian MacNeil, with music by Academy Award-winning composer Stephen Warbeck and lighting by Rick Fisher.
AN INSPECTOR CALLS TOUR 2020
The tour of An Inspector Calls has now concluded.
25 - 29 February 2020
Theatre Royal Brighton
3 - 7 March 2020
Theatre Royal Plymouth
10 - 14 March 2020
Cardiff New Theatre
17 - 21 March 2020
Cambridge Arts Theatre
24 - 28 March 2020
Theatre Royal Glasgow
31 March - 4 April 2020
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford
14 - 18 April 2020
Sheffield Lyceum
21 - 15 April 2020
Sunderland Empire
29 April - 2 May 2020
Belgrade Theatre Coventry
12 - 16 May 2020
Orchard Theatre Dartford
19 - 23 May 2020
Curve Leicester Read our review of An Inspector Calls
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