An anti-romantic comedy by Bernard Shaw to be broadcast in three parts
Cast (by permission of Firth Shephard)
The action takes place in Major Petkoff's house in a small town near the Dragoman Pass, Bulgaria, late in the year 1885
Part 1 takes place in Raina's bedroom
Production by John Richmond
Although one of his very earliest plays-it was written in 1895-Arms and the Man is considered by many to be the most entertaining Shaw ever wrote. It was the first of G. B. S.'s 'Pleasant Plays', which include Candida, The Man of Destiny, and You Never Can Tell. Set in the Balkans of the middle
'eighties, the play moves with characteristic Shavian wit through the intrigues of those troublous countries, having as its aim a realistic onslaught on the political and religious idealism of those times.
Part 2 of Arms and the Man will be broadcast in the National programme on Tuesday, April 18, and Part 3 on Friday, April 21.
(Empire Programme)