![]() ![]() On the night after the Battle of Slivnitza, a Swiss mercenary soldier in the Serbian army, Captain Bluntschli, climbs in through her bedroom balcony window and threatens to shoot Raina if she gives the alarm. ![]() Its heroine, Raina Petkoff, is a young Bulgarian woman engaged to Sergius Saranoff, one of the heroes of that war, whom she idolizes. The play takes place during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. The illustration is by Marguerite Martyn of the St. No men were allowed in the rehearsals or at the performance. Louis are sketched rehearsing for an all-woman amateur benefit performance of George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man" in December 1908. Shaw replied, in characteristic fashion, "My dear fellow, I quite agree with you, but what are we two against so many?" Īrms and the Man is a humorous play that shows the futility of war and deals comedically with the hypocrisies of human nature.Īctors of the Smith College Club of St. ![]() Amidst the cheers, one audience member booed. He was called on to stage after the curtain, where he received enthusiastic applause. Arms and the Man was one of Shaw's first commercial successes. The play was first produced on 21 April 1894 at the Avenue Theatre and published in 1898 as part of Shaw's Plays Pleasant volume, which also included Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny. Shaw at the time of the production of Arms and the ManĪrms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw, whose title comes from the opening words of Virgil's Aeneid, in Latin:Īrma virumque cano ("Of arms and the man I sing"). ![]()
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