"throughout the Second World War, starring such actors as Edith Evans, John Gielgud, Deborah Kerr and Robert Donat. In 1944 nine Shaw plays were staged in London, including ""Arms and the Man"" with Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike and Margaret Leighton in the leading roles. Two touring companies took his plays all round Britain. The revival in his popularity did not tempt Shaw to write a new play, and he concentrated on prolific journalism. A second Shaw film produced by Pascal, ""Major Barbara"" (1941), was less successful both artistically and commercially than ""Pygmalion"", partly because of Pascal's insistence on"
"Misalliance Misalliance is a play written in 1909–1910 by George Bernard Shaw. The play takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead, Surrey in Edwardian era England. It is a continuation of some of the ideas on marriage that he expressed in 1908 in his play, ""Getting Married"". It was also a continuation of some of his other ideas on Socialism, physical fitness, the Life Force, and ""The New Woman"": i.e. women intent on escaping Victorian standards of helplessness, passivity, stuffy propriety, and non-involvement in politics or general affairs. Shaw"
"Androcles and the Lion (play) Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requiting mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw portrays Androcles to be one of the many Christians being led to the Colosseum for torture. Characters in the play exemplify several themes and takes on both modern and supposed early Christianity, including the cultural clash between Jesus' teachings and traditional Roman values. Androcles, a fugitive Christian tailor, accompanied by his nagging wife, is on the"
"George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ""Man and Superman"" (1902), ""Pygmalion"" (1912)"" and Saint Joan"" (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw"
"and ""Captain Brassbound's Conversion"" (1899)—all centre on questions of empire and imperialism, a major topic of political discourse in the 1890s. The three are set, respectively, in 1770s America, Ancient Egypt, and 1890s Morocco. ""The Gadfly"", an adaptation of the popular novel by Ethel Voynich, was unfinished and unperformed. ""The Man of Destiny"" (1895) is a short curtain raiser about Napoleon. Shaw's major plays of the first decade of the twentieth century address individual social, political or ethical issues. ""Man and Superman"" (1902) stands apart from the others in both its subject and its treatment, giving Shaw's interpretation of creative"
"Shaw's neighbour Clare Winsten. Buoyant Billions Buoyant Billions (1948) is a play by George Bernard Shaw. Written at the age of 92, it was his last full-length play. Subtitled ""a comedy of no manners"", the play is about a brash young man courting the daughter of an elderly billionaire, who is pondering how to dispose of his wealth after his death, a subject that was preoccupying Shaw himself at the time. Shaw began work on the play in 1946, shortly after the end of World War II, but left it unfinished, returning to it in 1948. It was inspired by"
"Captain Brassbound's Conversion Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1900) is a play by G. Bernard Shaw. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection ""Three Plays for Puritans"" (together with ""Caesar and Cleopatra"" and ""The Devil's Disciple""). The first American production of the play starred Ellen Terry in 1907. The play explores the relationship between the law, justice, revenge and forgiveness. ACT I, Mogador, Morocco. Sir Howard Hallam, a judge, and his sister-in-law, Lady Cicely Waynflete, a well-known explorer, are at the home of Rankin, a Presbyterian minister. Rankin, knows Sir Howard as the brother of an old friend, Miles Hallam, who moved"
"and Sarah Snook. Films<br> Stage Sound recordings Opera<br> The play has also been adapted into an opera by composer Tom Owen. Saint Joan (play) Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known of her life based on the substantial records of her trial. Shaw studied the transcripts and decided that the concerned people acted in good faith according to their beliefs. He wrote in his preface to the play: There are"
"""The Bernard Shaw Society"", remains active . More recent societies have been established in Japan and India. Besides his collected music criticism, Shaw has left a varied musical legacy, not all of it of his choosing. Despite his dislike of having his work adapted for the musical theatre (""my plays set themselves to a verbal music of their own"") two of his plays were turned into musical comedies: ""Arms and the Man"" was the basis of ""The Chocolate Soldier"" in 1908, with music by Oscar Straus, and ""Pygmalion"" was adapted in 1956 as ""My Fair Lady"" with book and lyrics"
"The Devil's Disciple The Devil's Disciple is an 1897 play written by Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's eighth, and after Richard Mansfield's original 1897 American production it was his first financial success, which helped to affirm his career as a playwright. It was published in Shaw's 1901 collection ""Three Plays for Puritans"" together with ""Captain Brassbound's Conversion"" and ""Caesar and Cleopatra"". Set in Colonial America during the Revolutionary era, the play tells the story of Richard Dudgeon, a local outcast and self-proclaimed ""Devil's disciple"". In a twist characteristic of Shaw's love of paradox, Dudgeon sacrifices himself"
"the war"" drifting towards disaster. Shaw named Shakespeare (""King Lear"") and Chekhov (""The Cherry Orchard"") as important influences on the piece, and critics have found elements drawing on Congreve (""The Way of the World"") and Ibsen (""The Master Builder""). The short plays range from genial historical drama in ""The Dark Lady of the Sonnets"" and ""Great Catherine"" (1910 and 1913) to a study of polygamy in ""Overruled""; three satirical works about the war (""The Inca of Perusalem"", ""O'Flaherty V.C."" and ""Augustus Does His Bit"", 1915–16); a piece that Shaw called ""utter nonsense"" (""The Music Cure"", 1914) and a brief sketch"
"Saint Joan (play) Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw about 15th century French military figure Joan of Arc. Premiering in 1923, three years after her canonization by the Roman Catholic Church, the play dramatises what is known of her life based on the substantial records of her trial. Shaw studied the transcripts and decided that the concerned people acted in good faith according to their beliefs. He wrote in his preface to the play: There are no villains in the piece. Crime, like disease, is not interesting: it is something to be done away with by general"
"a whole ""belongs to the Church of England"". Act 3: Shaw reads about the Balfour declaration, and predicts it will create ""another Belfast"". The playlet was published in ""The New Leader"" on 29 November 1936. Shaw later wrote a similar playlet about the origin of party politics entitled ""The British Party System"". A Jewish chemist based on Weizmann is portrayed in similar terms in Shaw's later play ""Farfetched Fables"". Arthur and the Acetone Arthur and the Acetone (1936) is a satirical playlet by George Bernard Shaw which dramatises an imaginary conversation between the Zionist Chaim Weizmann and the British Foreign"
"script after another while calculating the number of words equal to the rent money: Shaw's first play, ""Bury the Dead"" (1936) was an expressionist drama about a group of soldiers killed in a battle who refuse to be buried. His play ""Quiet City"", directed by Elia Kazan and with incidental music by Aaron Copland, closed after two Sunday performances. During the 1940s, Shaw wrote for a number of films, including ""The Talk of the Town"" (a comedy about civil liberties), ""The Commandos Strike at Dawn"" (based on a C.S. Forester story about commandos in occupied Norway) and ""Easy Living"" (about"
"held by the latter. ""The Doctor's Dilemma"" (1906), a play about medical ethics and moral choices in allocating scarce treatment, was described by Shaw as a tragedy. With a reputation for presenting characters who did not resemble real flesh and blood, he was challenged by Archer to present an on-stage death, and here did so, with a deathbed scene for the anti-hero. ""Getting Married"" (1908) and ""Misalliance"" (1909)—the latter seen by Judith Evans as a companion piece to the former—are both in what Shaw called his ""disquisitionary"" vein, with the emphasis on discussion of ideas rather than on dramatic events"
"O'Flaherty V.C. O'Flaherty V.C., A Recruiting Pamphlet (1915) is a comic one-act play written during World War I by George Bernard Shaw. The plot is about an Irish soldier in the British army returning home after winning the Victoria Cross. The play was written at a time when the British government was attempting to promote recruitment in Ireland, while many Irish republicans expressed opposition to a war to defend the British Empire. Dennis O'Flaherty, winner of the Victoria Cross for his outstanding bravery, has returned home to his local village to take part in a recruitment campaign. In conversation with"
"released on 30 August. The West Coast Premiere of the musical adaptation opened in June 2013 at The San Jose Repertory Theater directed by Michael Halberstam. Candida (play) Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his ""Plays Pleasant"". The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's affections. The play questions Victorian notions of love and marriage, asking what a woman really desires from her husband. The cleric is a Christian Socialist, allowing Shaw—himself a"
"The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles: A Vision of Judgement is a 1934 play by George Bernard Shaw. The play is a satirical allegory about an attempt to create a utopian society on a Polynesian island that has recently emerged from the sea. The play divided critics. Edmund Wilson described it as Shaw's only ""silly play"", in which the action seems to purely whimsical. In contrast, Frederick McDowell wrote that Shaw had created ""a symbolic fable"" to expound his own ""deeply felt ideas"". The preface, in which Shaw appears to advocate the killing of"
"dealing with the Marconi scandal, vie in flatness with ""Passion, Poison and Petrifaction""; both are really beneath criticism."" The Music Cure The Music Cure, a Piece of Utter Nonsense (1913) is a short comedy sketch by George Bernard Shaw, satirising therapeutic fads of the era and the Marconi scandal of 1912. Lord Reginald Fitzambey, Under-Secretary of State for War, is in a distressed state. He explains to his doctor that he had bought shares in the ""Macaroni Trust"", knowing that the British army would soon be put on a vegetarian diet. Brought before a parliamentary committee for profiteering, he tried"
"regards the Salvation Army's acceptance of Undershaft's money as hypocrisy, Shaw did not intend that it should be thought so by the audience. Shaw wrote a preface for the play's publication, in which he derided the idea that charities should only take money from ""morally pure"" sources. He points out that donations can always be used for good, whatever their provenance, and he quotes a Salvation Army officer, ""they would take money from the devil himself and be only too glad to get it out of his hands and into God's"". Lady Britomart Undershaft, the daughter of a British earl,"
"Arms and the Man 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""). 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 onto stage after the curtain, where he received enthusiastic applause. Amidst the"
"intermission the coloured balls would be handed out again, and then once more be able to be thrown down on the ""stage"" and prompt the actors for other tidbits of information. One colour would be for a summary of the epilogue, another for something an actor has gleaned from the massive prologue, that sort of thing. Androcles and the Lion (play) Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. The play is Shaw's retelling of the tale of Androcles, a slave who is saved by the requiting mercy of a lion. In the play, Shaw"
"Geneva (play) Geneva, a Fancied Page of History in Three Acts (1938) is a topical play by George Bernard Shaw. It describes a summit meeting designed to contain the increasingly dangerous behaviour of three dictators, Herr Battler, Signor Bombardone, and General Flanco (parodies of Hitler, Mussolini and Franco). Because of its topicality in the run up to World War II, the play was constantly rewritten by Shaw to take account of rapidly changing events. Though initially a success, the play's flippant portrayal of Hitler and fascism have limited revivals in later years. At the offices of the ""Committee of Intellectual"
"Michel de Ghelderode and Chekhov. Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction is a short play by Bernard Shaw, subtitled The Fatal Gazogene: a Brief Tragedy for Barns and Booths. It is a comic mock-melodrama, written to raise funds for charity. It has been revived occasionally, in tandem with other short works by Shaw or by other playwrights. Shaw began writing the play in May 1905 and finished it on 4 June. It was published in Harry Furniss's Christmas Annual 1905, and was privately printed for copyright purposes in the US in the same year. It first appeared in"
"The Man of Destiny The Man of Destiny is an 1897 play by George Bernard Shaw, set in Italy during the early career of Napoleon. It was published as a part of ""Plays Pleasant"", which also included ""Arms and the Man"", ""Candida"" and ""You Never Can Tell."" Shaw titled the volume ""Plays Pleasant"" in order to contrast it with his first book of plays, ""Plays Unpleasant"". May 12, 1796, an inn at Tavazzano. After his victory at the Battle of Lodi, Napoleon eats his meal, works on his plans and talks with the innkeeper Giuseppe Grandi. A lieutenant arrives with"
"a Play and Tony Walton for Outstanding Set Design. Social Security (play) Social Security is a play by Andrew Bergman. It focuses on trendy Manhattan art gallery owners Barbara and David Kahn, whose life is upended when her Mineola housewife sister Trudy deposits their eccentric mother Sophie on the couple's doorstep while she and her husband Martin head to Buffalo to rescue their sexually precocious college student daughter from a menage a trois with two men. Barbara and David introduce Sophie to suave nonagenarian artist Maurice Koenig, who offers to paint her portrait and soon begins to brighten her life"
"Passion Play: a dramatic fragment Passion Play: A Dramatic Fragment is an early and incomplete play in blank verse by George Bernard Shaw. It was written in 1878, shortly after his arrival in London at the age of 21. The play seems to be conceived as a skeptical retelling of the Gospel story in two acts. The first act is set in Nazareth, where Jesus is a young man in his twenties, unhappy at his recent rejection by a local beauty named Rahab. Joseph is portrayed as a drunkard and a poor workman, and his relationship with Mary as difficult"
"evolution in a combination of drama and associated printed text. ""The Admirable Bashville"" (1901), a blank verse dramatisation of Shaw's novel ""Cashel Byron's Profession"", focuses on the imperial relationship between Britain and Africa. ""John Bull's Other Island"" (1904), comically depicting the prevailing relationship between Britain and Ireland, was popular at the time but fell out of the general repertoire in later years. ""Major Barbara"" (1905) presents ethical questions in an unconventional way, confounding expectations that in the depiction of an armaments manufacturer on the one hand and the Salvation Army on the other the moral high ground must invariably be"
"Bentley, who finds a shaky new courage, up into the air with her at the conclusion of the play. The L.A. Theatre Works released an audio adaptation in 2004 () with Roger Rees as Lord Summerhays, Eric Stoltz as Johnny Tarleton, Victoria Tennant as Mrs. Tarleton, W. Morgan Sheppard as Mr. Tarleton, Joy Gregory as Hypatia, Tom Beyer as Bentley Summerhays, Tegan West as Joey Percival, Douglas Weston as Gunner/Julius Baker and Serena Scott Thomas as Lina Szczepanowska. Misalliance Misalliance is a play written in 1909–1910 by George Bernard Shaw. The play takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon"
"Candida (play) Candida, a comedy by playwright George Bernard Shaw, was written in 1894 and first published in 1898, as part of his ""Plays Pleasant"". The central characters are clergyman James Morell, his wife Candida and a youthful poet, Eugene Marchbanks, who tries to win Candida's affections. The play questions Victorian notions of love and marriage, asking what a woman really desires from her husband. The cleric is a Christian Socialist, allowing Shaw—himself a Fabian Socialist—to weave political issues, current at the time, into the story. Shaw attempted but failed to have a London production of the play put on"
"evolution."" The play is generally considered to be one of Shaw's slighter works. Louis Crompton says that ""Getting Married is hardly more than an animated tract"". Homer E. Woodbridge says, ""It has only small bits of action, and these are divided among three groups of people who are very loosely related. But the subtitle and the comment call attention to the two distinctive peculiarities in the form of the play: it is primarily a discussion, and it consists of only one interminable scene."" Getting Married Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908, it features"
"Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction is a short play by Bernard Shaw, subtitled The Fatal Gazogene: a Brief Tragedy for Barns and Booths. It is a comic mock-melodrama, written to raise funds for charity. It has been revived occasionally, in tandem with other short works by Shaw or by other playwrights. Shaw began writing the play in May 1905 and finished it on 4 June. It was published in Harry Furniss's Christmas Annual 1905, and was privately printed for copyright purposes in the US in the same year. It first appeared in book form in ""Translations and"
"Caesar and Cleopatra (play) Caesar and Cleopatra is a play written in 1898 by George Bernard Shaw that depicts a fictionalized account of the relationship between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra. It was first published with ""Captain Brassbound's Conversion"" and ""The Devil's Disciple"" in Shaw's 1901 collection ""Three Plays for Puritans"". It was first performed in a single staged reading at Newcastle upon Tyne on 15 March 1899, to secure the copyright. The play was produced in New York in 1906 and in London at the Savoy Theatre in 1907. The play has a prologue and an ""Alternative to the Prologue""."