“An Inspector Calls” is an award winning 1992 production which took place at the National Theatre in Cambridge. It was a very rare opportunity and the people who went, including myself, were very lucky to experience and greatly enjoy the play. It had a gritty, realistic feel to it and the talent on stage complemented the staging greatly.

The production is about a family being inspected by a police inspector investigating a girl who committed suicide via ingestion of disinfectant chemicals. The family discover that they individually wronged this girl and each, without the others, knowledge helped to push the girl to her grizzly demise. In a strange and effective twist the inspector leaves and is found to be a fraud, but the family’s moment of relief is shattered by a phone call from the infirmary saying a girl had killed herself and, due to their earlier interest, were going to be questioned by a police inspector. The previous one may not may been a real police officer but was most definitely a ghostly premonition.

In conclusion the journeying to and from Cambridge was peaceful and the play was interesting and very enjoyable but unfortunately is unlikely to be put on again which makes those of us who went appreciate it even more.

Caleb Hood