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'You Never Can Tell': All in the Family

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20050311
Author:Tricia Olszewski

Washington Stage Guild's production of George Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell" begins even before the lights go up. From the darkened stage, a man and a woman exchange fervid "oh's!" and "uhn's!," a pop is heard, and the woman then purrs, "Thank you!" Just as audience members are wondering if they've been aural witnesses to something naughty, the stage is lit, revealing a chap walking away from a young redhead reclined in . . . a dentist's chair. Guess you never can tell.

That may be the most risque moment in "You Never Can Tell," one of the early works that Shaw categorized as "Plays ...

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