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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 18. 27th July 1972

"TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD" by G.B. Shaw Massey's Arts Festival play for 1972 will be presented at the Memorial Theatre July 28-29 at 8.00pm Bookings at D.I.C. Public $1 Students 75cents Members 60cents Too True to be Good has been described as one of Shaw's greatest and least popular plays". Written in 1931, some three years after The Apple Cart and eight years after Saint Joan, it portrays the confusions of the post-World I "flapper" generation, and uses techniques which anticipate those of the The…

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"TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD" by G.B. Shaw Massey's Arts Festival play for 1972 will be presented at the Memorial Theatre July 28-29 at 8.00pm Bookings at D.I.C. Public $1 Students 75cents Members 60cents Too True to be Good has been described as one of Shaw's greatest and least popular plays". Written in 1931, some three years after The Apple Cart and eight years after Saint Joan, it portrays the confusions of the post-World I "flapper" generation, and uses techniques which anticipate those of the Theatre of the Absurd. It is in fact very much a play for the present (although written some forty years ago) with Shaw's wit, wisdom and theatrical skill illuminating such contemporary themes as the 'generation gap', the moral aftermath of war, the uselessness of wealth and freedom without responsibility, and the need in for Women's Liberation. The plot appears to be quite crazy but the dialogue and characterisation are vivid and scintillating in the very best Shavian manner.

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