A tale of family secrets and intrigue is coming to Buchanan.

Under the co-direction of Buchanan resident Kelly Carlin and Dowagiac resident Jack Gannon, the Tin Shop Theatre in Buchanan will be hosting “An Inspector Calls” starting Friday evening. The play will run for two weekends, with showings at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27-28 and Nov. 3-4 and at 4 p.m. Oct. 29 and Nov. 5. Tickets are $10 for adults, $9 for students and seniors and $5 for children under the age of 12. For groups of 10 or more, ticket prices lower to $8 per person.

“It’s going to be a really good time,” Carlin said of the play. “It’s a very intriguing play.”

“An Inspector Calls,” originally written by J.B. Priestley, takes place in the early 1900s during a celebratory dinner party for an upper-class family. The party eventually gets interrupted by a police inspector inquiring about the suicide of a young woman, which is when the primary tension of the play begins.

“There are a lot of twists and turns in this play, especially at the end,” Carlin said, noting that the subject material may be too mature for children under the age of 13. “I think people are going to be very, very surprised.”

The idea to bring “An Inspector Calls” to the Tin Shop Theatre came after Gannon and his wife, who are members of the Beckwith Theatre in Dowagiac, saw the play performed in Chicago, and knew they had to bring it back to the Michiana due to the complex themes the play exhibits.

“It’s just an incredible play,” said Gannon, who is also starring as the patriarch in the play. “It kind of spell binds you while you are watching it and leaves you thinking about it long afterwards. Needless to say, we were quite taken with the play.”

Once Gannon got Carlin on board with the play, they immediately began preparing to bring the play to the people of Buchanan, having only five weeks to cast and rehearse the show before the premiere.

“The way this progressed, we had to do this in a very compressed amount of time, not much more than half the amount of time we would usually have to prepare,” Gannon said.

Despite the time crunch, the directors feel that the play has come together smoothly, due in large part to the strength of the cast and Carlin’s experience with theatre groups that operate on similar time tables.

“The dialog of this play is very dense, which could have been hard to pull off with this short amount of time,” Carlin said. “But I think our cast has done a very good job with it and we feel prepared for the first performance.”

With the actors in place and dialog memorized, both Carlin and Gannon hope that the people of Buchanan will come out to see the play and fully appreciate the play for its complexity.

“I really want people to walk away from this play with a little bit of a chill,” Carlin said. “I want them to come away thinking about how they would react if they were in the situation the characters are in and how our everyday actions affect others. That would be amazing.”