“Bang on the zeitgeist” – London Times

Third-year M.F.A. directing student Sabrina Lloyd directs George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara as her M.F.A. thesis project. This witty, hypocrisy-revealing comedy mixes war and morality into what the London Mail calls, “dramatic dynamite.” An officer in the Salvation Army, Major Barbara Undershaft is disillusioned when her mission-focused Christian denomination eagerly accepts much-needed donations from a whisky distiller and an armaments manufacturer, which happens to be owned and run by her estranged father. Barbara is horrified by the immorality of her father’s work which supports the ongoing war, but she and her sister Sarah also need his financial help. Both are engaged to less than prosperous suitors – scholars of Greek Literature don’t make the big bucks – and Barbara is determined to continue to spread the message of salvation. With our nation at war and the military-industrial complex more influential than ever, The Evening Standard comments Major Barbara “speaks to us with even more chilling urgency than it did at its 1905 premiere.”