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AN INSPECTOR CALLS

REVEALS HYPOCRISIES OF UPPER-CLASS SOCIETY

This year our school’s English drama club
took part in the Foreign Language Drama Fes-
tival in Novi Sad. This two-day-long interna-
tional festival was held for the 6th time and
high school students from both our county

(Belgrade, Novi Sad, BačkaPalanka, Valjevo,
Šabac) and abroad (Rumania, Bosnia and Her-
zegovina) participated. Our school’s students:
Luka Jandrić (Inspector Goole) Luka Niko-
lić (Arthur Birling), Tara Tvrtković (Sybil
Birling), Dunja Kovačević (Sheila Birling),
Marko Križov (Eric Birling), Aleksa Čegar
(Gerald Croft), Nikolina Milovac (Edna) per-
formed the play “An Inspector calls”. The
play was directed by our school’s English
teacher Milena Grujičić. During the festival,

our students had the chance to see other plays
of their fellow students performing not only
in English, but also in German, Rumanian
and Spanish. At the end of the festival, awards
were given to best performers, and our crew
member Marko Križov got the best support-
ing acting award. “An Inspector Calls” is a play written by En-
The play was once more performed for the glish dramatist J. B. Priestley, and it was first
primary-school students and teachers on the performed – in Russia in 1945.

Open Door Day on 11 June 2019 in our school.
The play is a three-act drama which takes place
on a single night in 1912, focusing on the rich
upper middle-class Birling family. The fami-

ly is visited by a man calling himself Inspec-
tor Goole, who questions the family about
the suicide of a young working-class woman,
Eva Smith (also known as Daisy Renton). The
play is seen as criticism of the hypocrisies of
British society and as an expression of Priest-
ley’s socialist political principles. He shows
his idea that the older generation are often a
lot less able to change their ways whereas the
younger generation (the youth) are much more
susceptible to a change in their attitude and

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