Misalliance January 21, 2010

Take a free-spirited lady acrobat, an incompetent assassin, and an excitable underwear tycoon, mix in a bushel of marriage proposals, a family row or two, and a suspiciously serendipitous plane crash and you have 'Misalliance,' Bernard Shaw's giddy comedy of the dangerous joys of sex, love, marriage and children, which quips and quibbles its way through what was supposed to be a lazy Saturday afternoon in the country. Love (or something) is in the air and wordplay is the weapon of choice in this peculiar and predatory game of courtship.