Mrs. Warren's Profession by Matt Windman

"Mrs. Warren's Profession," George Bernard Shaw's 1894 drama that reexamines the pros and cons of prostitution, contains no violence or obscenities. Yet when it was first performed in New York in 1905, the police considered it so incendiary that they shut down the production and arrested the cast and crew. While its shock value has worn off over the past hundred years, the play remains an exquisite exploration of mor…

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