Inspector calls

• Mother, I think it was a cool and vile I mean thing to do - Shelia
• Unsinkable absolutely unsinkable –Mr birling
• Look mummy isn’t it a beauty- Sheila
• I’ll never never do it to anyone again – Sheila
• These girls aren’t cheap labour– Sheila
• you’re squiffy – Sheila
• A man has to make his own way, look after himself – Mr Birling
• All mixed up like bees in a hive community and all that nonsense– Mr Birling
• Do you play golf inspector? – Mr Birling
• There’s every excuse for what your mother and I did – Mr Birling
• As if a girl of that sort would ever refuse money – Mrs Birling
• Eric, I’m absolutely ashamed of you – Mrs Birling
• It’s her own fault – Mrs Birling
• Acting like hysterical child – Mrs Birling
• We will helped to kill her – Eric
• I was in that state, where a chap easily turns, nasty – Eric
• You’re not the type of father, a chap could go to – Eric
• What matters is what happened to that girl – Eric
• I didn’t keep her there so that I could make love to her – Gerald
• Insisting on on a parting gift – Gerald
• Dough faced woman – Gerald
• there are millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths – inspector
• Fire blood and anguish – inspector
• It’s better to ask for the world than to take it – inspector
• Burnt inside out – inspector
• No, I’m on duty – inspector
• Stage direction (pink and intimate, until the inspector arrives, and then it should be bright and harder.)

  Foreshadows the later, exposure of the birlings
• Yes, but you can’t. It’s too late. She’s dead.


  Short sentences to be impactful
• You’re offering money at the wrong time


  Cyclical structure as it ends with the inspector, refusing bribery
• No, thank you… I’m on duty


  Alcohol, bears connotations of emotional behaviour. Burling is trying to corrupt the inspector.