Directed by Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright Amy Freed and Ph.D candidate Ciara Murphy (last year's directors of Our Country's Good).

From the Nobel Prize and Academy Award-winning playwright of Pygmalion and Heartbreak House, Stanford Drama presents George Bernard Shaw's timeless, ironic comedy, Major Barbara.

The year is 1906. Major Barbara works righteously for the underprivileged at a Salvation Army shelter until one day, a generous but morally dubious donation is made by her estranged father, a millionaire weapons manufacturer. Barbara's father makes a shambles of the morality of liberalism; to him the most shameful sin is poverty and the cardinal virtue is prosperity. He points to the generative power of his factories and the respectable residences and comfortable lives of his employees, which for Barbara, makes a devastating case for arms trade profits and a whole new set of ideals.

"Certainly one of Shaw's brightest, slyest, most provocatively outrageous and most timeless comedies." -New York Post