The Literature Network - Guthrie's `Major Barbara' impeccable; THEATER REVIEW: Shaw's political message is nicely wrapped in a fine, complex production.(NEWS)

Guthrie's `Major Barbara' impeccable; THEATER REVIEW: Shaw's political message is nicely wrapped in a fine, complex production.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20070515
Author:Preston, Rohan

Byline: Rohan Preston; Staff Writer

Some people smuggle political messages into theater on the back of comedy. George Bernard Shaw gets laughs from his incisive politics - the kind of thing that the precariously funded theater world has largely surrendered to TV's "The Daily Show" and its ilk.

In "Major Barbara," Shaw's talky comedy about moral hypocrisy and honest war profiteering that opened over the weekend in a flawless Guthrie Theater production, Shaw has turned the expected world order a little on its head. Those you might expect to be virtuous - the characters who ...

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