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AN inspector Calls features (anticlockwise from front): Vince Callaghan, Barbara Haina, Colin Lewis, Caleb
Berg, Mary Grainger, Thomas Claxton and Christie MacGregor.

jarizes class

@ An Inspector Calls by J.B.
Priestley at Hendry “Fall,
ith and Hendry, to March
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Curtain Call
martin@nsnews.com

NINETEEN and count-
ing.

[ think that is the number
of major theatre awards Ax
Inspector Calls has racked up
in London and New York
since director Stephen
Daidrey’s revival first graced
the boards of the National
Theatre in 1992, Presently in
London (at the Garrick) after
18 months on Broadway, the
production, which has already
won more awards than any
other play in history heads out

on another world tour later
this year.

So how does the North
Vancouver Community Players
(NVCP) production at tiny
Hendry Hall measure up to
such augus? comparisons?

Surprisingly well is the
answer. Oh sure, there’s no
possibility of approaching the
level of execution and produc-
tion values that have had
London critics raving about
imaginative and visually stun-
ning theatre. Bur director

beth MeNeight and her
excellent production team play
it straight and allow Priestle’
to speak tor himself — wh
he does

Inspector Goole
agent who holds a mirror to
the actions of a smugly

monicd English family in

1912. A woman has died and
he must ask who is responsi-
ble. Comparisons are drawn
between “respectable” citizens
and common criminals,

A ghoul is a spirit who
feeds on the dead, bur it is not
the body of the working girl
wl who comm horrible sui

i the anger of
G role. Rather, it’s that body
of Edwardian society that is
dead and does not know it.

those unthinking British
Empire values that based se
much on the presumed rights
of class. In 1946 he asked a
kinder, gentler society to
acknow: ledge that “we don’t
live .
This NVC? production has
a solid cast that had a whisper-
ing audience in the palm of its

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hand at intermission, Which is
to say the set-up is dghter than

C christie Mac iregor command
more of the stage in the early
going.

But under MeNeight’s
tight direction even problems
of dialect and the narrow emo-
tional range of Thomas

xton don’t mar a good,
enjoyable production, (Lose
the plastic fruit, though.)

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