Major Barbara August 17, 2010

APT presents George Bernard Shaw's 'Major Barbara,' a satire in three acts. In the play, Shaw mocks religious hypocrisy and the complicity of society in its own ills. A major in the Salvation Army, Barbara Undershaft is estranged from her wealthy father, Andrew Undershaft, a munitions manufacturer. Barbara discovers that although her father may deal in death for a livelihood, his principles and practices are religious in the highest sense. Barbara eventually accepts her father's views on capitalism and believes that the greatest evil is the degradation caused by grinding poverty.