An Inspector Calls

• JB Priestley: 'In a good theatrical production we're offered a piece of life so shaped and colored and contrived that everything in it down to the smallest detail is significant'
• JB Priestley: 'The shape and color of a room, the way the light falls through a window, the choice of furnishings, their very relation between a chair and a stool, all mean something'
• Port


  Expensive alcoholic drink associated with the wealthy and upper class
• Drinking port is significant due to its cost, as it was prohibitive and out of reach for the working class</b>
• The characters have been drinking champagne before the play begins
• Thora Hands: 'The domestic context of alcohol consumption was governed by the rules of social etiquette which both demonstrated and reinforced social class and gender values within middle and upper-class homes'
• Purchasing, serving and consuming good quality wines and spirits were key ways to demonstrate levels of cultural capital and good taste