Widowers’ Houses

Bernard Shaw’s first play, Widowers’ Houses, was produced in 1892, and thus began his 50-year war against stale theatrical practice, humorless sentimentalism, all kinds of social injustice, hypocrisy, weak-mindedness, and moral lassitude. Now, how did he manage all that and at the same time become popular and wealthy beyond compare? All the answers live in this extraordinary–and rarely produced–opening volley: He set out to expose the collaboration of aristocracy and business against labor, and peopled his play with a pack of damaged specimens you can’t help but be titillated to meet. J.R. Sullivan
directs.

Appropriate for audiences 12 and up.

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