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SU DRAMA TAKES SPUNKY SHOT AT SHAW.(CNY)(Column)

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From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
Date: 20040304
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Byline: JOAN E. VADEBONCOEUR ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST

The plays of George Bernard Shaw seldom are staged by Syracuse-based companies. Happily, the Syracuse University drama department filled that gap with its production of the satirical "Arms and the Man."

Director Craig MacDonald chose to pull out all the stops and stage it as an outright farce. While this interpretation of the satire of romantic notions of love and war may offend purists, younger generations accept it with glee. A Sunday matinee's predominantly college crowd hooted and hollered from lights up to lights ...

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