American Theatre, October 1st, 2000
If there is any play that evokes admiration in the abstract, while sending actual producers running for the hills, it's George Bernard Shaw's Back to Methuselah. Nevertheless, through Nov. 14, Atlanta's Theater Emory is presenting the five-play cycle that is as demanding of its audience as it is vast in scope. As the playwright accurately predicted, "Alas! There's no money in it."
Methuselah grew out of Shaw's disillusionment over the horrors of World War I and the resulting hedonism of "shell-shocked rakes and deflowered flappers." With his typical modesty, Shaw, in his mid-sixties, set hi...
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