I saw the Abbey Theatre's excellent production of Major Barbara on Friday evening. George Bernard Shaw may be unfashionable nowadays but there is much to appreciate in his polemics.With only a sketchy schoolboy recollection of the plot, I relished the unfolding of the arguments advanced by the play's anti-hero, Undershaft (admirably portrayed by Paul McGann), pitching his realism against the idealism of his daughter …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30AM on September 9, 2013