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SHAW'S SILLINESS, LYRIC'S WIT SAVE 'MISALLIANCE'

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19901011
Author:Patti Hartigan, Globe Staff

MISALLIANCE

Play by George Bernard Shaw

Directed by Spiro Veloudos

Presented at the Lyric Stage, Beacon Hill, through Oct. 21 George Bernard Shaw's "Misalliance" is the turn-of-the-century dramatic equivalent of today's electronic telephone services. More of a gabfest than a play, this 1910 drama features a string of conversations neatly tied together and manufactured to address the key issues of the day. You want women's liberation: press 3. Family relations: press 4. Modern morality: press 5.

But while the chat (plot?) line is contrived, at least the talkers are witty and, in the Lyric ...

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