Act One

• "The lighting should be intimate until the INSPECTOR arrives, then it should be brighter and harder"
• "(Gerald is) rather too manly to be a dandy"
• "Perhaps we may look forward to a time when Crofts and Birling are no longer competing" - Mr Birling
• "I speak as a hard-headed business man" - Mr Birling
• "Titanic - she sails next week ... absolutely unsinkable" - Mr Birling
• "Silly little war scares" - Mr Birling
• "Next Honours list. Just a knighthood of course" - Mr Birling
• "Look after himself and his own - and -" - Mr Birling
• "I'd like some information" - Inspector Goole
• "(Cutting through, massively)" - Inspector Goole
• "But these girls aren't cheap labour - they're people" - Sheila Birling
• "I'd like to look at that photograph now, Inspector" - Gerald Croft
• "I've told my father - he didn't seem to think it amounted to much" - Sheila Birling
• "Told them that if they didn't get rid of that girl, I'd never go near the place again" - Sheila Birling
• "I couldn't be sorry for her" - Sheila Birling
• "Oh - why had this to happen?" - Sheila Birling
• "(Laughs rather hysterically)" - Sheila Birling
• "All right. I know her. Let's leave it at that." - Gerald Croft
• "(She looks at him almost in triumph. He looks crushed.)" - Sheila and Gerald