On the Rocks (by George Bernard Shaw; produced by the Federal Theatre). "Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks." Taking this gloomy pronouncement by Captain Shotover in Heartbreak House as his text, Author Shaw wrote On the Rocks to while away the tedium of his world tour in 1933. Last week, its belated cut-price U. S. premiere brilliantly rounded out the Federal Theatre's season.
Current convention for producers of Shaw plays is to dress up the...
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