An Inspector Calls is a play written by English dramatist J. B. Priestley, first performed in the Soviet Union in 1945 and at the New Theatre in London the following year. It is one of Priestley's best-known works for the stage and is considered to be one of the classics of mid-20th century English theatre. The play's success and reputation were boosted by a successful revival by English director Stephen Daldry for the National Theatre in 1992 and a tour of the UK in 2011–2012. The play is a three-act drama which takes place on a single night in April 1912, focusing on the prosperous upper middle-class Birling family, who live in a comfortable home in the fictional town of Brumley, "an industrial city in the north Midlands". The family is visited by a man calling himself Inspector Goole, who questions the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman in her mid-twenties. Long considered part of the repertory of classic drawing-room theatre, the play has also been hailed as a scathing criticism of the hyp
Es una de las obras más conocidas de Priestley para el escenario y se considera que es una de las clásicas del teatro inglés de mediados del siglo XX. El éxito y la reputación de la obra fueron impulsados por un éxito de reavivamiento por el director inglés Stephen Daldry para el Teatro Nacional en 1992 y una gira por el Reino Unido en 2011-2012. La obra es un drama de tres actos que se desarrolla en una sola noche en abril de 1912, centrándose en la próspera familia Birling de clase media superior, que vive en una casa cómoda en la ciudad ficticia de Brumley, "una ciudad industrial en el norte de Midlands". La familia es visitada por un hombre llamado a sí mismo Inspector Goole, quien pregunta a la familia sobre el suicidio de una joven trabajadora en la mitad de la década de 1920.