September 7- October 22 , 2014
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Stacey Connelly
Raina Petkoff, a wealthy young woman with a taste for melodrama, is engaged to Sergius Saranoff, a dashing major in the Bulgarian army. On the night of her fiance’s triumph on the battlefield, a soldier in the Serbian army — a Swiss professional, with no national interest — bursts into her bedroom, and begs her to hide him so that he will not be killed. Raina complies, though she thinks the man a coward. Raina’s mother, imperious social climber Catherine, helps her smuggle the soldier away, but not before Raina has lost a bit of her heart to this pathetic specimen.
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