Past Thriller:
Kentwood Players presents
An Inspector Calls
by J.B. Priestley
Directed by James Rice
Assistant Director Jayla Bryant
Produced by Lyndsay Palmer and Marty Feldman
Sept 15 - Oct 7, 2023
A classic of mid-20th century theater, the Hitchcockian suspense drama AN INSPECTOR CALLS centers on the Birling Family – Arthur, Sylvia, Sheila, and Eric - 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 interrogates the family about the suicide of a young working-class woman in her mid-twenties, Eva Smith. During his questioning, all members of the family are lightly or deeply implicated in the girl’s undoing, including Sheila’s fiancé Gerald Croft. What begins as a parlor drama with polite banter quickly becomes acid and hateful. Everyone is not who they seem to be, including the inspector, thanks to a Twilight Zone-inspired plot twist.
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Arthur Birling
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Ben Lupejkis
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Sybil Birling
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Lisa J. Salas
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Sheila Birling
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Ren Warzecha
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Eric Birling
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Payton Ross
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Gerald Croft
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Aaron Hagler
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Inspector Goole
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Chiquita Fuller
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Edna
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Elora Becker
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