Mrs Warren's Profession
From: Monday, 2nd November 2009
To: Saturday, 7 November 2009
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Synopsis
Miss Vivie Warren is a very independent girl, but then she can afford to be; she has a scholarship at Cambridge and a generous monthly allowance from her mother. She is also a very modern young woman; nothing shocks her. So how will she react when she finds out where the money comes from? Written in 1894 and banned until 1925.
Our Review:
3 November 2009
George Bernard Shaw came up with a shocker when, in 1894 he wrote Mrs Warren’s Profession, a play about a woman who was a partner in a continental chain of brothels. This was the sort of thing polite Victorian society spoke about and it was banned for thirty years.
The woman in question, Mrs Warren, played by the much-loved Felicity Kendal doesn’t even tell her daughter how her Cambridge education and monthly allowance has been paid for.
I would have thought that a woman from a low background like Mrs Warren would have been a bit like Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, talking posh most of the time but occasionally lapsing into common speak.
It’s a pity this doesn’t happen for it would have given the play some variety from the distinctly upper class tones of everyone else.
All the same you can’t help having a soft spot for this madam in her ...
Cast
Felicity KendalFelicity Kenda (Mrs Warren)l
David Yelland (Crofts)
Lucy Briggs-Owen (Vivie)
Mark Tandy (Praed)
Lucy Briggs-Owen (Vivie)
Eric Carte (Reverend Samuel Gardner)
Max Bennett (Frank)
Creative
George Bernard Shaw (Author)
Theatre Royal Bath (Producer)
Michael Rudman (Director)
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