MISALLIANCE by George Bernard Shaw directed by Martin Benson September 10 - October 10, 2010 Segerstrom Stage
SCR and GBS—a relationship that has wowed theatre audiences with stellar productions and countless awards. Now the fun begins anew, and Shaw is at his mischievous best, turning his sharp wit to the relationship between parents and children. While the elders argue ideas and morals, the younger generation longs for action, adventure, love and independence. Especially Hypatia, who is tired of all the talk and ready for something to happen. Finally it does!
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Playwright Bio
George Bernard Shaw lived 94 years and wrote 63 plays—not to mention novels, letters, criticism, pamphlets, essays and short stories. Born in Ireland in 1856, he spent most of his life in England, where his play John Bull’s Other Island made King Edward VII laugh so hard he broke his chair. Second only to Shakespeare in popularity, Shaw was blessed with a knack for folding humor into serious examinations of topics such as marriage, religion, government, classism, education and parent-child relationships. Among his best-known works are Pygmalion, Arms and the Man, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Major Barbara, Saint Joan and Heartbreak House. Shaw won the Nobel Prize for Literature (which his Socialist beliefs nearly caused him to reject) and an Oscar (for his work on the film version of Pygmalion). He is best remembered for his witticisms—“Lack of money is the root of all evil”; "Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
