Major Barbara

by George Bernard Shaw

A Student Acting Thesis production

directed by Cary Mazer

Produced November 6th, 7th, 8th, 13th, 14th, and 15th, 2003
Studio Theater, Annenberg Center

Synopsis:

There are no easy answers to questions of war and peace, government and industry, wealth and poverty, or religion and faith in G. Bernard Shaw’s 1906 comedy, Major Barbara. A life-long socialist and pacifist, Shaw puts his most provocative remarks into the mouth of Andrew Undershaft, an unrepentant billionaire capitalist and war contractor, who tries to entice his aristocratic daughter, a major in the Salvation Army, and her fiance, a professor of Greek, to take over the family business. Shaw’s play is as unsettling at the beginning of the twenty-first century--in our era of terrorism and preemptive warfare, and globalization and poverty--as it was when it was first performed at the dawn of the twentieth century, less than decade before "the war to end all wars."
 

Cast:

(in order of appearance:)
Lady Britomart Undershaft: Jenny Weiss
Stephen Undershaft: Jim Miles-Polka
Sarah Undershaft: Katie Foster
Charles Lomax: Patrick Fisher
Major Barbara Undershaft: Becca Shor (thesis candidate)
Adolphus Cusins: Jason Greenfield (thesis candidate)
Andrew Undershaft: Jim Schlatter
Rummy Mitchins: Rachel Balik
Snobby Price: Uri Eiger
Jenny Hill: Kim Rust
Peter Shirley: Caleb Green
Bill Walker: Dan Schoffer
Mrs. Baines: Becca Goland-Van Ryn

Morrison, Bolton, Salvation Army members, factory workers, etc., to be cast from the ensemble.
 

Artistic Staff/Crew:

Director: Cary Mazer
TD/Scene Design: Steve Hungerford
Lighting Design: Peter Whinnery
Assistant Lighting Designer: Lauren Sankovich
Stage Manager: Gira Derise
Dramaturg: Sally Ollove
Props Design: Caroline Gordon
Assistant Props: Caroline Rothstein
Graphic Design: Maryana Geller
Sound Design: Jessica McConaughy
Costume Design: Katherine Croke
Assistant Costume: Julia Markowski
ASM: Katie Newbold
Light Board: Josh Boyette
Sound Board:
Running Crew: Dwayne McFarlane
 

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