First produced more than a hundred years ago, "Arms and the Man" is a classic story of romance, war and chocolate. Fairfax High School's April 21 adaptation shifts the setting from the 1885 Serbo ...

On Thursday, full casting was announced for “Arms and the Man,” the George Bernard Shaw comedy opening City Lit’s 2018-19 season. Set during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian war, the show ribs the ...

The play is a humorous take on the Serbo-Bulgarian conflict in the late 19th century, exploring the absurdity of war while exposing the flaws of heroic adulation and militarism.

Silver Spring Stage performs George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," a satirical comedy set during the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War that explores romance, class, marriage, idealism and the ...

Shaw’s play was first produced in 1894, less than a decade after the end of the Serbo-Bulgarian War. So his audiences were likely well aware of the war at the time.

Set in wartime Bulgaria in 1885 with a sometimes buffoonish cast of Bulgarian, Swiss, Serbian, and Russian characters, Shaw’s play is widely regarded as a humorous but stinging critique of war ...

The war now over and Bulgaria victorious, Major Paul Petkoff, husband to Catherine, returns home. Also returning from the war is Sergius Saranoff, Raina's betrothed and leader of the should-have ...

The action of Bernard Shaw ’s comedy “Arms and the Man” is set in Bulgaria and most characters are Bulgarian. The plot is based on the Battle of Slivnitsa during the Serbo-Bulgarian War in 1885.