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Shaw's `Misalliance' delights after slow start.(VARIETY)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20000121
Author:Preston, Rohan

George Bernard Shaw is one of our most vexing playwrights because he loaded his work with so many disparate elements. He sought to upend theatrical convention and to point out the artifice in art while critiquing the morals of upper-class society. He was a contrarian contradiction: an anti-dramatic dramatist, a Socialist who showed fondness for the titans of capital he ridiculed.

"Misalliance," which opened Wednesday at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, perfectly illustrates the Shavian paradox.

On the one hand, the comedy is a sprawling, seemingly plotless discourse on ...

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