Actress Catherine McNallly Triumphs in once-controversial Shaw play
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
By Bernard Shaw
Perth Classic Theatre Festival to August 12
On the surface, Mrs. Warren’s Profession may simply seem to be a late Victorian shocker about a wealthy female brothel-keeper who eventually gets her comeuppance from the daughter she has carefully reared in a cocooned world of privilege and propriety.
But the play has more on its mind than tabloid sensationalism There is no denying the dramatic power of those closing scenes when Vivie Warren, the secrets of her family history finally laid bare, confronts her mother with her knowledge of the truth and brutally seizes control of her own destiny. …