The Devil's Disciple
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 13, 2007
Closed Feb 10, 2008
Opened Dec 13, 2007
Closed Feb 10, 2008
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Written in 1897, George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple shines with wit and wisdom. Set in the American War for Independence, the fast-moving comedic melodrama features a farrago of mistaken identities and powerful life and death situations. Shaw revels in deconstructing American Puritanism; the play could have been written today.
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The ever-foxy George Bernard Shaw had some unexpected opinions about his 1897 play
The Devil's Disciple, now getting a worthwhile revival by Tony Walton at the Irish Repertory Theater. For example, he wrote that "it does not contain a single even passably novel incident." About its plot, he gleefully confessed: "Every old patron of the Adelphi pit would...recognize the reading of the will, the oppressed orphan finding a protector, the arrest, the heroic sacrifice, the court martial, the scaffold."
Indeed, Shaw even speculated that whatever it was that pleased the favorable reviewers of the day "will assuredly lose its gloss with the lapse of time and leave The Devil's Disciple exposed as[...]