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Shaw's `Mrs. Warren' rarely sells itself short.(Metropolitan Times)(Arts & Entertainment)(Theater)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 19960730
Author:Pressley, Nelson
In "Mrs. Warren's Profession," George Bernard Shaw's characters sometimes orate like practiced pamphleteers as they enact a plot jammed with the tawdriest sort of melodramatic twists.
The combination may sound pompous and corny, but in the right hands Shaw's ethical investigations are vastly entertaining, and the audience at the Olney Theatre Center sits pretty much spellbound through director John Going's brisk, sure production of this 103-year-old drama.
The profession in question is prostitution. (Even though the word never comes up, the subject is clear enough ...
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