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The Guillotine: Twentieth-Century Classics That Won't Last No 6: J B Priestley
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It may seem perverse to deny posterity to J B Priestley when, as I
write, Stephen Daldry's much-lauded, award-winning production of An
Inspector Calls is still running in the West End. Yet there,
precisely, is the rub. It's the production that has been lauded, the
production that has won awards. By re-setting Priestley's creaky old
warhorse in a gaudily stylised, neo-Expressionist limbo, Daldry
resembles nothing so much as the sort of virtuoso pianist of the old
school who was more comfortabl...
