Inspector Goole leaves, warning them that if people don't take care of each other, there will be fire, blood, and anguish -- an anticipation of the war that was to break out two years later. The second production earned multiple awards, including Best Revival of a play, and best featured actress for Jane Adams.

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Leona Clarke's flirtatious Sheila would be fit for a character in 2014 but not 1914 and detracts from the play's didacticism. Here was an opportunity to become a classroom staple praised by teachers for accuracy sadly lost to poor casting and performances which struggled under the weight of sophisticated characters. While the 2015 BBC production makes use of its budget and cast it becomes difficult as a teaching tool due to the constant flashbacks which remove the claustrophobia of the original production. Then the doorbell of the mansion rings and the maids usher in a police inspector named Goole, who has come to make some inquiries about the rather nasty suicide of a poor young lady a a few hours ago. The setting, props, lighting, camera work, costumes and makeup are massively let down by poor performances and wild liberties with the lines, to the point that much of Priestley's well crafted ironies are lost.

Each person, without knowing it, and without knowing of the involvement of the others, had contributed to the girl's horrible death. The weak son Eric had picked her up when she was down and impregnated her before stealing some money and sending her on her way. A mysterious inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guest following the suicide of a young woman.

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Croft, the suitor, had taken up with her and had an affair for some months before ending it, although the girl was in love with him.The revival production also earned awards for creative set design, which featured all adult actors moving around on an oversized doll house sized set, and the actors were unable to actually enter or move around within the rooms of the house.