In which play by George Bernard Shaw is the daughter of 'Lady Britomart Undershaft' an Officer of the Salvation Army?
"play in a more contemporary context, away from the immediate historical context of its original period. Major Barbara Major Barbara is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London. For many years, Barbara and her siblings have been estranged from their father, Andrew Undershaft, who now reappears as a rich and successful munitions maker. Undershaft, the father, gives money to the Salvation Army, which offends"
"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,"
"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 made him the dictator of the country behind which they hide and uses him as a puppet. Act Two Four years later, General overthrow the puppet government and Marshal who is now much older, is sent to a remote prison after sudden change in leadership of the country. His daughter (The Girl), Nurse and a Photographer who captures the daily life of Marshal stand by him. In June 2013, the play was revived by ""The New Actors Company"" and performed at the Southwark Playhouse in Newington Causeway, London. The play was adapted as a TV film for the Sunday"
"Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress: A Revolutionary Romancelet is a one-act play by George Bernard Shaw, written in 1917. The play is obviously influenced by the Russian Revolution that year. It takes place in an imaginary country which has recently experienced a similar revolution. The two main characters are the daughter of the ruler, who once ran away to join the circus as a girl, and now supports the revolution, and an army officer who opposes it. General Strammfest, whose family has served the Panjandrums of Beotia for 700 years is unhappy about working for the new,"
"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"
"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"
"Getting Married Getting Married is a play by George Bernard Shaw. First performed in 1908, it features a cast of family members who gather together for a marriage. The play analyses and satirises the status of marriage in Shaw's day, with a particular focus on the necessity of liberalising divorce laws. 1908: Edith, youngest daughter of Bishop Bridgenorth, is about to be married. Her uncle General Boxer Bridgenorth, will give her away, as he has all her sisters. As at all the other weddings he proposes to Lesbia Grantham, the bride's aunt, who refuses him for the ""tenth and last"""
"later years, she played his devoted daughter Sasha. An accomplished theatre actor, she has worked extensively with the Royal National Theatre, including its 1996 production of Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's ""War and Peace"", and also in London's West End (""Vassa"", ""Collected Stories""). Credits at the National Theatre include ""Collected Stories"", ""King Lear"" and most recently the title character in Marianne Elliott's production of George Bernard Shaw's ""Saint Joan"" to great acclaim. In 2011 she played Alma Rattenbury in Rattigan's final play ""Cause Célèbre"" at The Old Vic directed by Thea Sharrock. In 2007 she was one of nine"
"and Calista Flockhart as her daughter. Jitta's Atonement Jitta's Atonement (1923) is an adaptation by George Bernard Shaw of the play ""Frau Gitta's Sühne"" by Siegfried Trebitsch. It is about a woman who has to atone to her husband for having an affair with his best friend. The atonement of both Jitta and other characters take unexpected forms. Shaw dramatically rewrote the last part of the play, giving it a more characteristically Shavian tone. The Austrian playwright Siegfried Trebitsch was Shaw's translator for German language productions of his works. Shaw believed that Trebitsch had helped to launch his career in"
"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"
"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"
"Terry as Cicely Waynflete and Frederick Kerr as Brassbound. The play was adapted for British TV in 1953. 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,"
"number of occasions, on both stage and screen. Shaw has also worked in film and television, including ""My Left Foot"" (1989), ""Mountains of the Moon"" (1990), ""Three Men and a Little Lady"" (1990), ""Super Mario Bros."" (1993), ""Undercover Blues"" (1993), ""Persuasion"" (1995), ""Jane Eyre"" (1996), ""The Butcher Boy"" (1997), ""The Avengers"" (1998), ""Gormenghast"" (2000), and five of the ""Harry Potter"" films in which she played Harry Potter's aunt Petunia Dursley. Shaw had a brief but key role in Brian DePalma's ""The Black Dahlia"" (2006). In 2009, Shaw collaborated with Deborah Warner again, taking the lead role in Tony Kushner's translation"
"course of searching for Robert, Charlie, his daughter Jenny, and some of his sons rescue Sam (Jenny's newlywed Confederate soldier husband) from a Yankee POW train. After enduring the tragedy of losing his eldest son Jacob (to a sniper) and his second eldest son James and James' wife Anne (to deserters), Charlie and the rest of the family return home, defeated. In his despair, Charlie is reminded to return to church, where he, at long last, is reunited with Robert once more. The play was first performed at the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Connecticut, during 1974. It transferred"
"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 in ways she never expected in her twilight years."
"Hayman. In Matthews' book God sends the Archangel Gabriel to seek out the real Shaw, discovering four ""sham"" Shaws (his public personas) that hide the real individual. Hayman's book was a left-wing criticism of Shaw's religious ideology. In 1973 Brigid Brophy published ""The Adventures of God in his Search for the Black Girl"", in which Shaw himself appears. In 1968 the story was adapted into a play, which was first produced at the Mermaid Theatre under the direction of Basil Ashmore. Passages from the story were read out by a narrator (Edith Evans) and the Black Girl was played by"
"daughter but is turned down because education must give way to defence. When a Russian gunboat is rumoured to be near Adelaide, Beauchamp sets about whipping up the public into a frenzy in order to fund a standing army. The play was adapted for British TV in 1958 as part of ""Armchair Theatre"". The play was filmed for Australian TV. It originally aired 3 May 1961 on ABC's Melbourne station, and was recorded for showing on other ABC stations. The original broadcast was live. It was directed by William Sterling. The critic from the ""Sydney Morning Herald"" thought that ""uniform"
"than a son), tie him especially to Krupp steel. Friedrich Alfred Krupp died by suicide in 1902 following publication of claims he was a homosexual. His two daughters were his heirs. Undershaft shares a name with a Church of England church in the City of London named St Andrew Undershaft; given the City's longstanding status as the financial centre of London, the association underscores the play's thematic emphasis on the interpenetration of religion and economics, faith and capital. Sidney P Albert, a noted Shaw scholar, analysed various aspects of the play in several articles. These include: Fiona Macintosh has examined"
"of the winter of Discontent. His early 1980s plays were directly influenced by the coming to power of the Conservative Party led by Margaret Thatcher and the profound social changes they were bringing about. ""Restoration"", as a half-musical parody of Restoration comedies, deals with working class support for the Tories by showing a servant accepting his conviction and eventual execution for a murder committed by his cynical and silly master. ""Summer"" deals with the moral ambiguities of capitalism through the conflict of two women in socialist Yugoslavia. One is the daughter of former landlords, whose compassionate nature does not prevent"
"slumlord's daughter, in Shaw's first play, ""Widowers' Houses"", and she approached both Shaw and Yeats to write plays for her production at the Avenue. Yeats delivered the short play ""The Land of Heart’s Desire"", but Shaw had not finished his play in time for the series opening. ""A Comedy of Sighs"" by John Todhunter was quickly substituted, with Farr in the leading role, but the play was badly received and the entire venture was nearly a disaster. After receiving a desperate cable from Farr, Shaw delivered his ""Arms and the Man"". With only one week of rehearsal, Farr originated the"
"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"
"nursed the son of Sir Pearce, she had to bring up her own daughter on the bottle. When Sir Pearce mentions a citizen's obligation to king and country, O'Flaherty comments, 'Well, sir, to you that have an estate in it, it would feel like your country. But the devil a perch of it ever I owned.'"" 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"
"character of Andrew Undershaft as the play progresses. The pseudonymous commentator 'Ozy' has compared Andrew Undershaft's apparent undermining of Shaw's own personal, general convictions about the 'Life Force', and Shaw's attempt to have Adolphus Cusins restore some philosophical balance. Norma Nutter has briefly discussed conflicts between the character's personal convictions compared to the social realities that they eventually face, via the concept of 'false consciousness'. Bernard Dukore has examined the historical context of the depiction of money in the play, relating the then-contemporary situation with inflation to more recent historical circumstances. Nicholas Williams has discussed possibilities for reinterpretation of the"
"changes, often depicting how ordinary people's lives are affected by the war, including Joan's brother, Charles — acting as a scribe for his mother — requesting the king to provide them Joan's soldier's wages to live on, and chiding her for some irate informalisms she wants to include in the letter. Stephen Schwartz worked on an unused song for the expansion called ""I'll Call Her Barbara"" (The Shepherd). The album featured a cover painting by Doug Jamieson. ""(in order of appearance)"" The Survival of St. Joan The Survival of St. Joan is a rock opera by Smoke Rise (Gary Ruffin,"
"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""."
"John Tenniel portraying Disraeli as the old sailor and Britannia in the position of his daughter. A 1915 cartoon by Joseph Morewood Staniforth entitled ""The Dardanelles Passage"" was captioned ""it might be done and England and France can do it"", referring to the Gallipoli campaign, which was then just beginning. John Bull and Marianne replaced the old sailor and his daughter. George Bernard Shaw was inspired by the doleful imagery of failure and frustration in the work when he came to write his play ""Heartbreak House"", which emphasises the pathos and impotence of its characters. The relationship between the main"
"""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"
"actions in the Baltic Sea on 21 June 1854. This propensity for Irish servicemen to win a disproportionate amount of Victoria Crosses received satirical treatment from Dublin play-write George Bernard Shaw in his 1915 play ""O'Flaherty V.C., A Recruiting Pamphlet"". The play in some parts derives inspiration from the case of Michael John O'Leary. Within it Shaw tells the story of an Irishman from a nationalist family background who joins the British Army simply to escape the hum-drum existence of home life and to seek out adventure abroad. He does not know or care about the ""reasons"" for the war,"
"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"
"including Sam Alexander, Kim Wall, Jo Herbert, Hugh Skinner and Isaac Stanmore. Wild Oats (play) Wild Oats is a play by the Irish writer John O'Keeffe, premiered at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in 1791. O'Keefe's eyesight deteriorate so the play would have been dictated to his daughter Adelaide O'Keeffe. The naval captain Sir George Thunder and his valet and bosun John Dory arrive at an unknown country house on their hunt for deserters. They soon discover that it is the home of Thunder's niece Amaranth, who has been left a legacy on the condition that she live as a"
"his earldom by a usurper. He also has a daughter called Bella Franca, to whom he leaves what little wealth he has left. Godfrey is a mercer, Guy a goldsmith, Charles a haberdasher, and Eustace a grocer. At the beginning of the play, the father says he is to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land of Jerusalem to see the Saviour's sepulchre. He bids farewell to his sons and asks them to remain good apprentices. A Captain enrolls the four apprentices in a crusade led by Robert, Duke of Normandy, King William's son. After a shipwreck, the four"
"of fire, knives and hammers. The blow of mercy comes when Barbara is beheaded by her own father. Buhez Sante Barba Buhez Sante Barba (""The Life of Saint Barbara"") is a mystery play in Middle Breton verse on the life and miracles of the martyr saint Barbara, daughter of King Dioscurus of Nicomedia. It first appeared in print in 1557. Barbara, who has secretly embraced the Christian faith, is carefully guarded by her pagan father, who keeps her shut up in a tower in order to preserve her from the outside world. Barbara convinces the builders of her prison to"