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George Bernard (GB) Shaw
A bed-stting room in a fashionable quarter of London, the 1900s.
Lady Fitztollemache wakes up just in time to save herself from being murdered by her jealous husband. Her friend, the fashion dandy Adolphus Bastable, is not so lucky. Poisoned by Lord Fitztollemache, he finds himself rendered a living statue. Based on a children's story Shaw had published in Furniss' Christmas Annual in 1905.
Plays General
One Act
5
2
7
In the original production Messrs. Mason, Tucker, Mancy and Humphreys were credited as playing 'A Choir of Invisible Angels'
14 July 1905
First presented in a booth at Regent's Park London.
Selected Short Plays by George Bernard Shaw
1988
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