MY TERRIBLE PLAY.
SHAW ON "MBS. wAbEHPS v PROFESSION, . LONDXJN, September 7. Regarding the removal of the. ban from his play, "Mrs. Warren's Profession," Mr. Bernard . Shaw says:;, "Now I have reached the venerable age. of 68 in an odour-of sanctity, the Lord Chamberlain lets loose on mc the terrible play written 30 years ago, wfienii was a young tiger, fearing neither God nor man. "I was depending on him to keep the play locked up so that I,might end my days in peace. I .can't forbid -its .•performance, because it is true it, is needed to-day as. in 1894. But my "personal feeling • regarding the' license is 'better never than late.'" "-■ - - . The only passage to which the censor objects is a reference to the Duke of Beaufort. The censor recommends, a change of name. . - - -•'" ■' The play wiir be staged at Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, m .October. ,Zts •production in the United States created a Grundyistic resentment, one critic calling, it "Illuminated gangrene." .• "Mia. Warren's Profession," : a ppwerful ! but disagreeable play, was written in 1894. It was rejected by the censor, and was not produced tin 1902) when a. private performance. was given. When it was played in New York: in 1905 tie actors were prosecuted. . : - ■■■'--.'
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 222, 18 September 1924, Page 5
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