GBS
's cycle of five plays entitled Back to Methuselah, an eight-hour history of the world from the book of Genesis to 31,920 AD, was presented in Birmingham by Sir Barry Jackson
.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama, 1890-1990. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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Performance of text
George Bernard Shaw
GBS
's The Apple Cart, a futuristic political extravaganza, was first produced in England by Sir Barry Jackson
at Malvern's Festival Theatre
.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
xxviii
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
Textual Production
George Bernard Shaw
Sir Barry Jackson
produced another play by GBS
, Too True to Be Good, whose cast of characters includes a fictional representation of T. E. Lawrence
(Lawrence of Arabia) as Private Meek.
Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama, 1890-1990. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
xxviii
Textual Production
Muriel Jaeger
Production was arranged at Birmingham Repertory Theatre
under Sir Barry Jackson
, when the Lord Chamberlain's office banned the play. The Foreign Office
, MJ
learned, thought it most undesirable that anything humorous should be...