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PRODUCTION: Arms And The Man (Comedy) PRODUCTION DATE: June 1973 DIRECTED BY: Keith Jefferies STAGED: The Martlets Hall, Burgess Hill SYNOPSIS: In a war between Bulgaria and Serbia, an enemy Serbian soldier climbs a drainpipe to a young Bulgarian woman’s bedroom for shelter and shatters her every romantic notion about love and valor. A jealous lover, a bumbling military father, and a domineering and social-climbing mother round out a perfectly hilarious and charmingly ludicrous look at life in the old world of Eastern Europe. Arms and the Man is a burlesque of Victorian attitudes to heroism, war and empire. In the contrast between Bluntschli, the mercenary soldier, and the brave leader, Sergius, the true nature of valour is revealed. One of Bernard Shaw’s most glittering comedies PLAYWRIGHT: G. Bernard Shaw (he hated the "George" and never used it, either personally or professionally) was an Irish playwright and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
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