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Captain Brassbound's Conversion (play) 1900: 1901 1900: Fabianism and The Empire: A Manifesto (ed. Shaw) 1900 1900: Women as councillors (Fabian tract 93)‡ 1900 [3] 1901: Socialism for millionaires (Fabian tract 107)‡ ) 1901 [3] 1901: The Admirable Bashville (play) 1902: 1901 1901–02: Man and Superman incorporating Don Juan in Hell (play ...
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 Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny. Arms and the Man was one of Shaw's first commercial successes. He was called on to stage after the curtain, where he received enthusiastic ...
Shaw's first play to bring him financial success was Arms and the Man (1894), a mock-Ruritanian comedy satirising conventions of love, military honour and class. [6] The press found the play overlong, and accused Shaw of mediocrity, [69] sneering at heroism and patriotism, [70] heartless cleverness, [71] and copying W. S. Gilbert's style.
You Never Can Tell has also been performed at the Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario several times: in 1963, 1973, 1979, 1988, 1995, 2005 and most recently in 2015. 'You Never Can Tell' aired on 'BBC Play of the Month' on October 30, 1977, with Robert Powell as Dr Valentine, Judy Parfitt as Mrs. Clandon and Cyril Cusack as the Waiter ...
The three-character play is set in the drawing room of a flat located on Cromwell Road in London. Shaw describes Henry Apjohn as "a very beautiful youth, moving as in a dream, walking as on air," while Aurora Bompas has "an air of being a young and beautiful woman but as a matter of hard fact, she is, dress and pretensions apart, a very ordinary South Kensington female of about 37, hopelessly ...
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The Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario has mounted the play five times since the Festival's inception in 1962: 1976, 1990, 1997, 2008, and 2016 In 2006, it was revived off-broadway by The Irish Repertory Theatre , with Dana Ivey as Mrs. Warren, Laura Odeh as Vivie Warren, and David Staller as Mr. Praed.
In Shaw's words, it is about "how polygamy occurs among quite ordinary people innocent of all unconventional views concerning it." [ 1 ] The play concerns two couples who desire to switch partners, but are prevented from doing so by various considerations and end up negotiating an ambiguous set of relationships.