Orange Tree, LondonGeorge Bernard Shaw's satirical attack on the divorce laws (and the medical profession) rather outstays its welcomeThe Philanderer, written in 1893, is a prescient play. Bernard Shaw included it in his Plays Unpleasant, because its plot pivoted on the "grotesque sexual compacts" that the marriage laws obliged men and women to make. Despite the title, this is actually a play about women. About the t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21AM on May 22, 2016