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Theater;Shaw's Lasting Social Punch;`Mrs. Warren's Profession,' Trading on Its Tricks

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19910128
Author:Lloyd Rose

The Washington Stage Guild has just opened a very pleasant production of what George Bernard Shaw called one of his "unpleasant" plays, "Mrs. Warren's Profession." By "unpleasant," Shaw meant challenging, iconoclastic and rude about conventional pieties. He knew which Establishment soft parts to hit: "Mrs. Warren's Profession" was banned in England for 30 years. Even today, when almost nothing causes hysteria unless it brings in violence or excremental references, this play - polite, well-spoken, very British - has a real kick to it. Society doesn't yet have a response to Shaw's ...

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