First produced in 1885, this mild satire, the first of Shaw’s”Plays Pleasant”, is set in the Petkoff household in Bulgaria in 1885 and highlights the illusions of war, romance and class. Captain Bluntschli, a battle-weary Swiss mercenary fighting for the Serbian army, takes refuge in Raina Petkoff’s bedchamber, where she hides him from the authorities […]
1968 – “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams
The play, an American classic, first produced in 1945, tells the story of the Wingfield family, living in a small apartment in St. Louis during the Depression in the mid-1930s. Amanda, faded Southern belle and domineering matriarch, abandoned by her husband, is trying to raise her two children Tom and Laura under harsh financial conditions.Tom, […]
1967 – “The American Dream” and “The Death of Bessie Smith” by Edward Albee
The American DreamFor Albee The American Dream (premiering in 1961) “is an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, emasculation and vacuity; it is a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachykeen”.The […]