Misalliance

Name: Misalliance
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: George Bernard Shaw
ISBN: 9781580814805

Author: George Bernard Shaw

Narrator: Roger Rees, Eric Stoltz, Full Cast

Unabridged: 1 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: L.A. Theatre Works

Published: 05/01/2005

Categories: Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Performing Arts, Theater

Synopsis

Taking place on a single day in May 1909, a self-made millionaire and his family invite their future nobleman-in-law for a visit to their estate in Surrey, England. In this delightfully clever play, issues of gender, class, politics and family are all targets for Shaw’s keen wit.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Tom Beyer, Joy Gregory, Roger Rees, Serena Scott Thomas, W. Morgan Sheppard, Eric Stoltz, Victoria Tennant, Tegan West and Douglas Weston.

About George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856â€“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

Goodreads review by Manny

PERCIVAL. [to Hypatia] Does that satisfy you, Miss Tarleton? HYPATIA. Yes: that will teach him to tell lies next time. BENTLEY. [rising to make place for Gunner and handing him the pen] You mean it will teach him to tell the truth next time.......more

Goodreads review by Brad

There once was a fine group of people in a fine country house with a fine glass pavilion -- a crystal palace of sorts -- and this fine group of people was made up of fine folks from the upper class: lords who were diplomats to Genghis Khan (not the murderous thug but a region); fine folks from the m......more

Goodreads review by Eddie

Read this before seeing The Orange Tree Theatre’s production. If I had read it afterward, it might have got a fourth star! The cast and direction were superb and really brought Shaw’s lopsided and over-wordy contraption to life. Good things here: he plays quite radically with gender roles and assump......more

Goodreads review by Shane

This was the first play I have read from George Bernard Shaw, and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. Most of the humor still lands! In spite of the play being set in contemporary times 113 years ago, unfortunately most of the problems of the characters have yet to be solved. The world is stil......more