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Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin: Arma virumque cano ("Of arms and the man I sing"). [ 5 ] The play was first produced on 21 April 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida , You ...
Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant: (Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses, The Philanderer and Mrs. Warren's Profession. Pleasant: Arms and the Man, Candida, The Man of Destiny, You Never Can Tell.) 1898 Three Plays for Puritans ( The Devil's Disciple, Caesar and Cleopatra, Captain Brassbound's Conversion) 1901
Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in 1894. Influenced by Henrik Ibsen , he sought to introduce a new realism into English-language drama, using his plays as vehicles to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas.
Portland Center Stage was nominated for "Best Production" in the 1994–95 Drammy Awards which recognize excellence in Portland theater, for Arms and the Man. [22] Huddle was artistic director for the world premiere of the play Comfort and Joy: A Play in Two Acts, which premiered at PCS on December 2, 1995. [23]
They acted together in three plays by Shaw: Arms and the Man (as Bluntschli and Raina, 1925), Pygmalion (as Higgins and Eliza, 1926) and The Doctor's Dilemma (as the Dubedats, 1927). [9] [10] Lunt's other roles in his early years with the Guild included Dmitri Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov, Marco Polo in Marco Millions and Mosca in ...
He was one of the earliest to produce George Bernard Shaw's plays in America, appearing in 1894 as Bluntschli in Arms and the Man, and as Dick Dudgeon in The Devil's Disciple in 1897. The latter production was the first Shaw production to turn a profit. As a manager and producer of plays, Mansfield was known for his lavish staging.
Shaw's play Arms and the Man with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne opened at the Guild Theatre in September 1925, [58] [64] [65] followed by Ferenc Molnár's play The Glass Slipper. [58] [66] [67] Lunt and Fontanne starred in many of the Guild Theatre's early plays, mostly performing together.
Arms and the Man is an 1894 play by George Bernard Shaw. Arms and the Man may also refer to: Arms and the Man, adaptation by Cecil Lewis; Arms and the Man, adaptation by Franz Peter Wirth; Arms and the Man, title of American Rifleman from 1906 to 1923