Guillermo Cienfuegos directs George Bernard Shaw's cunning sociopolitical drama 'Misalliance' at Pasadena's A Noise Within.
Characters are never at a loss for words in the plays of George Bernard Shaw. What the French call “esprit d’escalier,” or staircase wit, to refer to those moments when the perfect rejoinder is thought of only after it’s too late, is not an experience that commonly afflicts his hyper-articulate crew. Shaw’s “Misalliance,” now in revival at A Noise Within in Pasadena, offers the pleasures of brilliant chat. It’s a wordy play, running close to three hours.
She appreciates his brain but would like more brawn. More than anything, she wants to live her life as “an active verb” and not as a prisoner of respectable morality. This longing is answered when Joseph Percival makes an emergency airplane landing that shatters the Tarletons’ greenhouse. His passenger, Lina Szczepanowska , a Polish acrobat in disguise as a man, saves the day with her quick action and no-nonsense fearlessness.
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