“MY TERRIBLE PLAY.”
SHAW On" “MRS. WARREN’S
PROFESSION.”
LONDON, Sept. 7. Regarding the removal of the ban from his pla.y, “Mrs. Warren’s Profession;” Mr, Bernard Shaw says: “Now I have, reached the venerable age of 68 ill an odour of sanctity, the Lord r Chamberlain lets loose on me the ter rible play written, 30 yeans ago, when I 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 will -be staged at Everyman Theatre. Hampstead, in October. Its production in the United States created a Grundyistic resentment, one critic calling it “illuminated gangrene.”
“Mrs. Warren’s Profession;’’ a powerful but disagreeable play, was written in 1894. It was rejected by the censor, and was not produced till 1902, when ai private performance was given. When it was played in New York in 1905 the actors were prosecuted. ,
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 September 1924, Page 9
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