Arms and the Man, George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man, George Bernard Shaw
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Arms and the Man

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Narrator: Anne Heche, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2006


Synopsis

It's 1885, and Raina's bourgeois Bulgarian family is caught up in the heady patriotism of the war with Serbia. The beautiful, headstrong Raina eagerly awaits her fiancé's victorious return from battle - but instead meets a soldier who seeks asylum in her bedroom. This is one soldier who definitely prefers romance and chocolate to fear and bullets. War may be raging on the battlefield, but it's the battle of the sexes that heats up this extraordinary comedy and offers very different notions of love and war.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Al Espinosa, Jeremy Sisto, Teri Garr, Anne Heche, Micahel Winters, Jason Kravits and Sarah Rafferty.

About George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish-born playwright, critic, and political activist, began his writing career in London. In addition to writing sixty-three plays, his prodigious output as critic, pamphleteer, and essayist influenced numerous social issues. In 1925, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature and in 1938 an Oscar for the movie version of Pygmalion.


Reviews

- "الإنسان والسلاح" هي مسرحية نشرت عام 1898 ، تدور احداثها في نهاية الحرب البلغارية - الصربية القصيرة. - المسرحية تتجاذب بين الرومانسية والواقعية بإسلوب برنارد شو الكوميدي الساخر في تعرية المفاهيم (الحب، الحرب، الطبقية..) وقلبها رأساً على عقب في بعض الأحيان. - تقوم "رايينا" بحماية احد الجنود المرتزقة......more

Goodreads review by Bill

Arms and the Man is Bernard Shaw’s first great play. It is filled with witty and amusing dialogue, a diverting and well-constructed plot, and charming, well differentiated characters. A perfect light comedy designed to amuse the most jaded audience, it is also a deadly serious play that launches a f......more

Goodreads review by Fabian

Oh yes... & NOW the Nobel Prize seems more than adequate for Shaw. It is awesome to see how Shaw has honed his skill considerably (both "Widower's Houses" and "Mrs. Warren's Profession", written a few years before this one, are slightly more pedantic and the characters are less likeable, albeit, anti......more