An Inspector Calls: OLT production suffers from problematic staging choices.
By J.B. Priestley Ottawa Little Theatre Directed by Jim McNabb
Social responsibility and time, two of J.B. Priestley’s major preoccupations, are at the centre of An Inspector Calls.
One of his best-known works, the drama is part social manifesto and part mystery in a drawing-room setting. With its underlying theme of the obligation to care for others and the playwright’s signature interest in time shifts, An Inspector Calls delivers strong criticism of class divisions in Great Britain immediately before the First World War as the scene is set for the mysterious inspector of the title to call on the wealthy Birling family and dent their complacency. …
