Major Barbara

by George Bernard Shaw, Charles Laughton, Burgess Meredith Glynis

$650 · Offered by Royal Books · No longer available

New York: Producers Theatre, circa 1956. Draft script for the 1956 Broadway revival. With annotations in manuscript ink and pencil throughout. An idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, serves as a Major in the Salvation Army, bringing aid to the destitute and poor. Her estranged father reappears in her life, causing complications when he wants to make donations to her cause. Originally written and premiered in 1905, this script

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