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Major Barbara

23/10/1968

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By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Hunter Bell

Season: 23 October - 5 November 1968 - Season extended due to demand

Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees her father as another soul to be saved. But when the Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day with a large cheque forcing Barbara to examine her moral assumptions. Are they right to accept money that has been obtained by Death and Destruction'? Full of lively comedy and sparkling debate, Major Barbara is one of Shaw's most forward-looking plays, brilliantly testing the tensions between religion, wealth and power, benevolence and equality, and metaphors and realities of war.
Cast:
Lady Britamart - Margaret Collins
Stephen - Ross Prebble
Morrison - Barry Williams
Sarah - Jenny Papprill
Barbara - Helen Browning
Adolphus Cusins - Bill Hayward
Charles Lomax - John Bateman
Andrew Undershaft - John Smyth
Rummy Mitchens - Joan Peel
Snobby Price - Pat Burke
Jenny Hill - Gillian Dean
Peter Shirley - Jack Baird
Bill Walker - David Gower
Mrs Baines - Frances Pattinson
Bilton - Barry Williams ​
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