“An Inspector Calls” at Barn Theatre

Action of play occurs in an English industrial city ... when a young girl commits suicide and an eminently respectable British family is subject to a routine inquiry in connection with the death. An inspector calls to interrogate the family, and during the course of his questioning, all members of the group are implicated lightly or deeply, in the girl's undoing. The family, closely-knit and friendly at beginning of the evening, is shown up as selfish, self-centered or cowardly, its good humor turning to acid, and good fellowship to dislike, before the evening is over. Surprising revelation, however, is in the inspector -- who turns out to be no copper at all, but a mysterious individual with full knowledge of everyone's connection with the suicide