Stephen Daldry’s multi award-winning production of An Inspector Calls makes a welcome return to the Theatre Royal Bath

The longest running play revival in history, Stephen Daldry’s acclaimed staging of An Inspector Calls first appeared at the National Theatre in 1992, and has since played in the West End (including a 6-year run), on Broadway, across Australia, the United States, Japan and Europe, and has completed seven major UK tours. The production returned to the West End in 2010, winning a host of 5-star reviews and enjoying sell-out performances at the Novello Theatre before transferring to the Wyndham’s Theatre for an extended run. Widely renowned as the theatrical event of our generation, this production has now been seen by an excess of three million theatregoers worldwide.

2015’s tour marks 70 years since An Inspector Calls was first staged, receiving its premiere in Moscow in 1945. Written at the end of the Second World War and set before the First World War, J.B. Priestley’s compelling and haunting play 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. Stephen Daldry’s visionary production unites the 1912 setting with the time it was written in 1945, transferring the play to a dramatic cobblestone war-torn wasteland, where the Edwardian Birling family home looms precariously, suspended on stilts.

An Inspector Calls appears at the Theatre Royal Bath from Tuesday 17 to Saturday 21 November. Very limited advance tickets are now available from the Theatre Royal Box Office on 01225 448844. Standby Tickets and Standing Places will go on sale daily during the run. Visit www.theatreroyal.org.uk for more information