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George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin in 1856. He moved to London at the age of twenty one where he began to meet the earliest British socialists. In 1884, he became one of the founder members of the Fabian Society, which promoted equality between people whatever their background or class. Shaw was a prolific…

We were equally accepting of their creative use of the props, believing the wicker basket to become the pony and trap or a train. This was mainly due to the actor’s use of the multi-functional props like the jolting when on the trap/train, but was helped by other elements, like the recorded sound of the…

I am comparing the two plays ‘The Crucible’ and ‘In The City’ (3rd part of ‘Barbarians’). Arthur Miller wrote the Crucible in 1953, at the time of McCarthyism. ‘In the City’ was written by Barrie Keefe in 1977. ‘The Crucible’ was set before it was written; however ‘In The City’ was set around the time…

There are quite a few similarities between the plots and characters of these plays. Both have quite dark, sinister endings; in ‘The Crucible’, characters like Goody Nurse and John Proctor are hanged, and in ‘Little Malcolm’ Ann Gedge is beaten up, and eventually Malcolm is abandoned by his co-‘revolutionaries’ when they see sense. A clear-cut…