Bernard Shaw
Dublin-born Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) was a playwright, essayist and journalist, prominent socialist, and noted vegetarian. He is best known for his plays, which include Arms and the Man (1894), Man and Superman (1905) and Pygmalion (1913). In 1925 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Title: Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Release Date: January 15, 2009 [EBook #3485]
Last Updated: December 10, 2012
Language: English
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ANNAJANSKA,
THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS
By George Bernard Shaw
ANNAJANSKA is frankly a bravura piece. The modern variety theatre demands for its turns
little plays called sketches, to last twenty minutes or so, and to enable some favorite performer to make a brief but dazzling appearance on some barely passable dramatic pretext. Miss Lillah McCarthy and I, as author and actress, have helped to make one another famous on many serious occasions, from Man and Superman to Androcles; and Mr Charles Ricketts has not disdained to snatch moments from his painting and sculpture to design some wonderful dresses for us. We three unbent as Mrs Siddons, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Dr Johnson might have unbent, to devise a turn for the Coliseum variety theatre. Not that we would set down the art of the variety theatre as something to be condescended to, or our own art as elephantine. We should rather crave indulgence as three novices fresh from the awful legitimacy of the highbrow theatre.
Well, Miss McCarthy and Mr Ricketts justified themselves easily in the glamor of the footlights, to the strains of Tchaikovsky's 1812. I fear I did not. I have received only one compliment on my share; and that was from a friend who said, It is the only one of your works that is not too long.
So I have made it a page or two longer, according to my own precept: EMBRACE YOUR REPROACHES: THEY ARE OFTEN GLORIES IN DISGUISE.
Annajanska was first performed at the Coliseum Theatre in London on the 21st January, 1918, with Lillah McCarthy as the Grand Duchess, Henry Miller as Schneidekind, and Randle Ayrton as General Strammfest.
ANNAJANSKA, THE BOLSHEVIK EMPRESS
The General's office in a military station on the east front in Beotia. An office table with a telephone, writing materials, official papers, etc., is set across the room. At the end of