The Village Voice, December 21st, 2005
Fox today's playgoers, alternately babied and brutalized, GBS's Mrs. Warren brings relief
MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION
By George Bernard Shaw
Irish Repertory Theatre
132 West 22nd Street
212-727-2737
NEW SHOCKS FROM SHAW
One proof of a play's value is that, a century later, it's still shocking. Written in the 1890s and first presented publicly 100 years ago (in the U.S.; it wasn't licensed for public performance in England till the 1920s), Mrs. Warren's Profession can still elicit an audible gasp or two from an audience. Only now, I suspect, the shock stems less from the once scandalous sub...
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