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Fanny’s First Play

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First published: 1914
Pages: 107

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Preface
3:47
Induction
38:28
Act 1
24:51
Act 2
31:32
Act 3
63:54
Epilogue
17:37

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A wealthy young woman writes a play and, keeping her authorship secret, hires professional actors to perform it before a panel of London's leading drama critics, whom Shaw draws as thinly veiled caricatures of the real reviewers of his day. That comic frame surrounds the inner play itself, in which two respectable middle-class families are scandalized when their well-behaved grown children each land briefly in jail and come home changed. Shaw uses the double structure to mock both the theatre establishment and the stuffy morality of Edwardian parents. Light on its feet and quick with its jokes, it became one of his longest-running early hits. First produced in 1911, it remains an enjoyable satire.

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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, and socialist polemicist who became the leading English-language dramatist of his era. A co-founder of the Fabian Society, he used comedy to attack social hypocrisy and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.