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...Greek drama Mr. Barker has been very active in the staging of modern plays. In George Bernard Show he has found a kindred spirt it, both agreeing on freedom from conventionality and established dramatic from in the production of the present-day play. The staging of "Androgens and the Lion," which recently completed its engagement in Boston, is an example of Mr. Barker's conception of modern stage craft...
...next Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Barker is one of the foremost theatrical producers in England and, with George Bernard Shaw, is the leading exponent of the new drama which takes freedom of expression as its keynote. In this country his production of "Androcles and the Lion" and Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" have won for him marked attention. He comes at the joint invitation of the department of English and the department of Classics. The lecture will be open to the public...
There are just two moods which would make "The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife" and "Androcles and the Lion" impossible for the spectator: one is the mood of the "Follies" and the other is the mood possessed by what Cyril Harcourt has termed "Consumptive Puritans." Both plays are rare treats,--but only to those who do not carry the above-mentioned attitudes with them to the Wilbur Theatre. Some may claim that it doesn't take a sick Puritan to turn pale when Shaw's burlesque of early Christianity really gets under way. That would be true...
There is more method than madness in preceding "Androcles and the Lion" with this quaint comedy in the old French manner. After all, it does not seem so tremendous a jump from the mediaeval to the days of the Christian martyrs. By the unreality of the first, we are quite prepared for the product of Shaw's fertile imagination. He calls it a "fable play." He might better have called it a "fabulous entertainment." If one goes in glum seriousness to see a play, if one wants to imbibe the practical philosophy of a deep thinker, if one wants anything...
Because the gentle, meek tailor, Androcles, has drawn the thorn from the lion's paw in the jungle, said beast refuses to devour said tailor in the arena. That is the core of the entertainment. The meat is found in the incidentals, which are mainly dialogue. Shaw cares no more for our emotions than for the play, as such, so why should we take it with a long face and call it 'daring dialogue." Nothing of the sort. It is a colossal toying with one fanciful idea after another. Think of a lion out-roaring a Caesar