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Arms and the Man<\/strong> by George Bernard Shaw<\/strong><\/p>\nPresented by The Online Stage<\/p>\n
In Biography for Beginners, a collection of sarcastic quatrains about various celebrities, Edmund Clerihew Bentley wrote:<\/p>\n
Mr Bernard Shaw
\nWas just setting out for the war,
\nWhen he heard it was a dangerous trade
\nAnd demonstrably underpaid.<\/p>\n
This rather unkind stanza is illustrative of Shaw's convenient pacifism, which forms the major theme of this play. For Shaw, war was an anachronistic form of barbarism - in his view, people ought to be able to resolve their differences through intelligent and spirited discourse.<\/p>\n
The action of the play, which occurs during a conflict on the Balkans, is initiated by the discovery by Raina, the daughter of an military officer, of a man who has taken refuge in her bedroom. Unfortunately, the man belongs to the opposing army. How will she deal with a notional enemy who behaves with such quixotic courtesy?<\/p>\n
Cast
\nNarrator - Noel Badrian
\nCaptain Bluntschli - Rob Goll
\nMajor Petkoff - Peter Tucker
\nOfficer\/ Major Sergius Saranoff - Jeff Moon
\nCatherine Petkoff - Sarah Mitchell
\nNicola - Craig Franklin
\nRaina Petkoff - Amanda Friday
\nLouka - Anna Grace<\/p>\n
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