An inspector calls

An Inspector Calls

Tue 31 January - Sat 4 February

Press Night: Tue 31 Jan, 7.30pm

Direct from its triumphant success in the West End last year, Stephen Daldry’s multi award-winning production of J.B Priestley’s classic thriller An Inspector Calls returns to The Lowry with a new cast of well-known faces from stage and screen.

Inspector Goole will be played by Tom Mannion, whose extensive television credits include popular shows Spooks, Missing, Taggart, The Bill and Midsomer Murders. Geoff Leesley, who has featured in television shows including Law and Order UK, Little Britain, Wire in the Blood and Coronation Street will take the role of Mr Birling.

Director Stephen Daldry, now triple Oscar nominated for his films The Reader (starring Kate Winslett, Ralph Fiennes), The Hours (starring Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) and Billy Elliot (starring Jamie Bell), won his first major directorial success in 1992 when his visionary revival of J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls opened at the National Theatre to outstanding critical acclaim.

Featuring Ian MacNeil’s ingenious designs, a sweeping score by Oscar-winning composer Stephen Warbeck (Shakespeare in Love) and atmospheric lighting by Rick Fisher, the production has received an unprecedented string of awards – a total of 19 major international awards - including the Olivier Award for Best Revival, Best Director and Best Designer and the Tony Award on Broadway for Best Revival, Best Director and Best Lighting. An Inspector Calls now returns on tour following its phenomenal success in the West End last year where, once again, the production proved a smash hit with critics and audiences alike.

The production is widely renowned as the theatrical event of our generation, now seen by over two million theatregoers worldwide.

Written at the end of the Second World War and set before the First, J.B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls is a compelling and haunting thriller. The story begins when the mysterious Inspector Goole calls unexpectedly on the prosperous Birling family home. Their peaceful dinner party is shattered by his investigations into the death of a young woman whom each of them in turn has exploited. His startling revelations not only shatter the very foundations of their lives but challenge us all to examine our consciences.

Listing Information

Tue 31 January – Sat 4 February

Times 7.30pm, Wed & Thu 1.30pm, Sat 2pm

Tickets £15 - £24

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An Inspector Calls Cast:

TOM MANNION – Inspector Goole

GEOFF LEESLEY – Mr Birling

KAREN ARCHER – Mrs Birling

KELLY HOTTEN – Shelia Birling

HENRY GILBERT – Eric Birling

JOHN SACKVILLE – Gerald

JANIE BOOTH – Edna

About the production

Winning a host of new five-star reviews and enjoying sell-out performances, the production extended its initial eight week run at the Novello Theatre with a further sixteen weeks at the Wyndham’s, playing until March 2010. The longest running play revival in history, Stephen Daldry’s An Inspector Calls has played in the West End (including an eight-year run), on Broadway, across Australia, the United States, Japan and Europe and has currently completed six major UK tours.

An Inspector Calls is designed by Ian MacNeil, with lighting by Rick Fisher, music by Stephen Warbeck and Associate Director Julian Webber. The National Theatre Production is produced on tour by PW Productions Ltd in association with Oliver Royds.

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About The Lowry

The Lowry celebrated its 10th anniversary on 28 April 2010 and has spent over a decade delighting, engaging and challenging both local and national audiences with the very best in visual art and performance. The Lowry Centre Trust is a not-for-profit charitable organisation and registered charity (no. 1053962). All income supports our world-class Theatres and Galleries programme, the care and display of the LS Lowry Collection and our life-changing Community and Education work. The Lowry’s Chief Executive, Julia Fawcett (www.thelowry.com/juliafawcett) was awarded an OBE for services to the Arts in the Queen’s 2010 New Year Honours list.