The Independent - London, September 2nd, 2000
"METHUSELAH LIVED 900 years," sang Sportin' Life in Porgy & Bess, "but who calls dat livin' when no gal'll give in, to no man what's 900 years?" Such considerations didn't bother George Bernard Shaw, who thought that, given enough time, man and woman would, like him, ignore the body's clamours and devote themselves to the Higher Thought.
It's easy to poke fun at Shaw's smug naivety - as a contemporary reviewer observed, who would live forever if existence were a Shaw play? - and easier still to pass up Back To Methuselah, whose characters spend nine hours making speeches at one another. David...
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