By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Sabrina Ann Lloyd
In Shaw's controversial attack on society's hypocrisy, Young Vivie Warren is intelligent and self-sufficient, but astounded to learn how her mother rose from poverty to riches through the world's oldest profession. Mrs. Warren ably justifies her past, attacking a hypocritical society that rewards vice and oppresses virtue, stating that poverty and the society that fosters poverty are the real villains. Certainly her profession is preferable to life in a 19th century factory. Vivie, respecting her mother's courage, accepts her past but not her present. After careful consideration, she cuts herself off from her mother, rejects all suitors, and against all odds, throws herself into the independent life of an emancipated career woman.