The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft - a marriage that will result in the merging of two successful local businesses. Yet, just when everything seems to be going so well, they receive a surprise visit from an Inspector Goole who is investigating the suicide of a young girl.

One of Priestley's best known works for the stage and considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th-century English theatre.

The play has been hailed as a scathing critique of the hypocrisies of Victorian / Edwardian English society and as an expression of Priestley's Socialist political principles.

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