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Shaw and the saint who brought him back to life ; HOME
From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070721
Author:Andy McSmith
More than 50 years after his death, George Bernard Shaw is creeping back into fashion. Two plays by the Irish writer whose reputation took a tumble in the 1950s have been revived simultaneously in British theatres, to wild acclaim.
His 1923 drama Saint Joan, which once seemed like a literary curiosity from a forgotten age, is back on the London stage and is being seen as a thoroughly modern, topical and disturbing statement about religious fundamentalism.
One critic, Tim Walker of The Sunday Telegraph, proclaimed : "Just occasionally, not often, the National gets a play absolutely right and ...
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