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to wonder how many people are getting hideous flashbacks to GCSE English lessons?

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HookedOnHooking · 13/09/2015 21:15

Watching An Inspector Calls social history blah blah...

I can smell that moldy old temporary classroom.
I feel actually nauseous.

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Blackcloudsbrightsky · 13/09/2015 22:20

I've always found it boring badger. That doesn't diminish rhe inportance of the message. Finance and politics are vitally important and I find them boring too!

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BathshebaDarkstone · 13/09/2015 22:23

We didn't get An Inspector Calls, it was 'O' level in my day, and it was Pride and Prejudice.

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NadiaWadia · 14/09/2015 03:12

I had heard of it, but didn't do it at school and never read or seen it before.
I found it interest, and like pps say, quite timely!

Bit confused about the Inspector though, was he some kind of supernatural being, like an angel? If so, wouldn't it have been more useful for him to make the family feel remorse AND then go and save poor old Eva? As he knew what was going to happen to her?

I expect I am missing something.

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Blackcloudsbrightsky · 14/09/2015 03:16

He's meant to represent some sort of - not sure if the word - sort of preceding the war as life for upper classes changed so much then. A sort of 'haha don't get too comfy guys, you're going to lose all this!'

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echt · 14/09/2015 07:41

I saw a production of this in London in the late 90s, where the whole set was an elaborately-constructed house that fell down in the final act, and made my students scream when bits of props; cups and saucers, bounced into the audience.

I always enjoyed teaching it, and laughed when students invariably wanted to know what happened in An Inspector Calls: 2.

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MythicalKings · 14/09/2015 07:42

I was in it at school. And all the lines came flooding back ...

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echt · 14/09/2015 07:47

What part did you play, mythical?

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MythicalKings · 14/09/2015 07:50

Sheila. A right cow. My friends called it typecasting.

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NoArmaniNoPunani · 14/09/2015 07:51

Reading this thread has made me realise my convent school taught it wrong - breezed over the ideas of rape and prostitution.

Another bloody thing I was taught wrong. The Catholics being framed for the gunpowder plot is the other one that I realised much later in life.

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Blackcloudsbrightsky · 14/09/2015 08:18

I don't think that's just the catholic schools - in my experience anyway!

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catslife · 14/09/2015 09:33

Very good timing in our household - our dd is studying this play for GCSE Eng Lit in the Summer (and we haven't read it).