Arms and the Man
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 10, 2000
Closed Apr 30, 2000
Opened Feb 10, 2000
Closed Apr 30, 2000
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Roundabout Theatre Company presents George Bernard Shaw's classic comedy Arms and the Man, directed by Roger Rees. The story follows an unheroic military man who prefers to carry chocolate bon-bons instead of bullets in his cartridge belt. He comes to realize that modern warfare is more a matter of careful paperwork than of leading gallant cavalry charges.
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"You kept Sergius waiting a year before you would be betrothed to him," says Catherine Petkoff to her fickle daughter, Raina, early in George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man. "Oh, oh, if you have a drop of Bulgarian blood in you, you will worship him when he comes home!"
But as war rages in the streets outside the roomy Petkoff villa, Captain Bluntschli practically tumbles into Raina's bedroom, alternately snaring and repelling the affections of the radiantly willful young woman. To make matters worse, Bluntschli is a Swiss mercenary fighting for the Serbian side against Sergius and the Bulgarians. And so Shaw's romantic satire on love, war, and honor is off and gushing in the Roundabout[...]