{"id":362895,"date":"2022-11-25T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T06:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=362895"},"modified":"2022-11-25T09:22:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T09:22:46","slug":"arms-and-the-man-review-shaw-s-women-show-their-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/arms-and-the-man-review-shaw-s-women-show-their-steel","title":{"rendered":"Arms and the Man review \u2013 Shaw\u2019s women show their steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steely &#8230; Raina (Rebecca Collingwood) and Alex Waldmann (Bluntschli) in Arms and the Man at the Orange Tree theatre.When Channel 4 began 40 years ago with a remit to radicalise British TV, there was some surprise that its early dramas included a Sunday peak-time broadcast of a West End production of George Bernard Shaw&#8217;s Arms and the Man, an 1894 farce set during the Serbo-Bulgarian war.The disruptive network, though, had made a learned choice: Shaw was proto-feminist and pacifist, his ridicule of nationalist militarism feeling, just after the Falklands conflict, much closer to home than its Balkan setting.The Orange Tree theatre in Richmond&#8217;s revival confirms that Shaw&#8217;s female roles remain among the most satisfying in the canon while references to the ambitions and incompetence of the Russian army and the rights of refugees collect a new context.The play is flimsily hung on a fur coat, which shields the modesty of Raina, a young Bulgarian woman, when a fleeing Serb, Bluntschli,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Channel 4 began 40 years ago with a remit to radicalise British TV, there was some surprise that its early dramas included a Sunday peak-time broadcast of a West<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}