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204:), and is available for suitors. Her mother, Mrs. Warren (her name changed to hide her identity and give the impression that she is married), arranges for her to meet her friend Mr. Praed, a middle-aged, handsome architect, at the home where Vivie is staying. Mrs. Warren arrives with her business partner, Sir George Crofts, who is attracted to Vivie despite their 25-year age difference. Vivie is romantically involved with the youthful Frank Gardner, who sees her as his meal ticket. His father, the (married) Reverend Samuel Gardner, has a history with Vivie's mother. As we discover later, he may be Vivie's out-of-wedlock father, which would make Vivie and Frank half-siblings. Mrs. Warren successfully justifies to her daughter how she chose her particular profession in order to support her daughter and give her the opportunities she never had. She saved enough money to buy into the business with her sister, and she now owns (with Sir George) a chain of brothels across Europe. Vivie is, at first, horrified by the revelation, but then lauds her mother as a champion. However, the reconciliation ends when Vivie finds out that her mother continues to run the business even though she no longer needs to. Vivie takes an office job in the city and dumps Frank, vowing she will never marry. She disowns her mother, and Mrs. Warren is left heartbroken, having looked forward to growing old with her daughter. 238:) of very distinguished ability—one whose knowledge of English social types is as remarkable as her command of industrial and political questions. She suggested that I should put on the stage a real modern lady of the governing class—not the sort of thing that theatrical and critical authorities imagine such a lady to be. I did so; and the result was Miss Vivie Warren ... Mrs. Warren herself was my version of the heroine of the romance narrated by Miss Achurch. The tremendously effective scene—which a baby could write if its sight were normal—in which she justifies herself, is only a paraphrase of a scene in a novel of my own, 262: 49: 986: 305:
as the Rev. Samuel Gardner. Members-only clubs had been a device to avoid the eye of authority, but actors often also used the opportunity to invite their fellow-artists to a private showing of a play, usually on Sundays, when theatres were closed to the public. The first public performance in London
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obedient woman: she is educated and entirely self-sufficient. She rejects two marriage proposals, reflecting her reliance on her work ethic and hard-headed approach to life. Shaw represents Vivie as the product of a type of gender reformation: a character who is asexual and "permanently unromantic".
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of a woman." Vivie, an intelligent and pragmatic young woman who has just graduated from university, has come home to get acquainted with her mother for the first time in her life. The play focuses on how their relationship changes when Vivie learns what her mother does for a living. It explains why
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Shaw said he wrote the play "to draw attention to the truth that prostitution is caused, not by female depravity and male licentiousness, but simply by underpaying, undervaluing and overworking women so shamefully that the poorest of them are forced to resort to prostitution to keep body and soul
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Men who could afford to get married in the Victorian era could make use of “laws that gave him total control of his wife's person—and her fortune”. Victorian women were expected to maintain a poised and dignified manner, and to obey their husbands. Vivie defies the Victorian expectations of an
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The play has been twice revived by the National Theatre, first in 1970–71 at the Old Vic, directed by Ronald Eyre, with Coral Browne and Sarah Badel, and more recently at the Lyttelton Theatre in 1985–86, directed by Anthony Page, with Joan Plowright and Jessica Turner as Mrs Warren and Vivie.
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Throughout the play, the boundary between sexual desires and proposed marriages is blurred. Frank flirts with both Mrs. Warren and Vivie; Mrs. Warren's companion Sir George Crofts proposes marriage to Vivie despite his relationship with her mother. Critic Petra Dierkes-Thrun argues that these
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as Mrs Warren and her real life daughter, Rose Quentin, as Vivie. The play ran from November 30 to December 3, before going on tour in 2023 to venues including the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham.
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transforms the story by bringing it into modern times. Mrs. Warren grows rich from her online porn and dating sites while her sheltered daughter recoils from the knowledge that her privileged life is based on the exploitation of women.
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writer as having a dramatisable story in it. It being hopeless to get me to read anything, she told me the story... In the following autumn I was the guest of a lady (
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and the deeply entrenched objectification of women, which Shaw saw pervading all levels of Victorian society down to its most basic nuclear element, the family."
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Laurence, Dan H. "Victorians Unveiled: Some Thoughts on Mrs. Warren’s Profession". Shaw: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies 24 (2004): 40. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
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Mrs. Warren became a prostitute, condemns the hypocrisies relating to prostitution, and criticises the limited employment opportunities available for women in
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examples illustrate the way in which Shaw "critiqued the ideological and economic system that produced her , attacking the problematic double standard of
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nominations went to Redgrave was for "Best Actress in a Play" and Herrmann for "Best Featured Actor in a Play". Herrmann won a Tony.
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The story centres on the relationship between Mrs Kitty Warren and her daughter, Vivie. Mrs. Warren, a former prostitute and current
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together." Shaw "addresses a social problem, organized prostitution, and dramatizes it through the character Vivie Warren."
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Fanny Brough as Mrs. Warren in the 1902 London production. Part of a series of photographs of the production taken by
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as Mrs. Warren, George Goodhart as Sir George Crofts, Julius Knight as Praed, Madge McIntosh as Vivie and
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has mounted the play five times since the Festival's inception in 1962: 1976, 1990, 1997, 2008, and 2016
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in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902. It is one of the three plays Shaw published as
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In 2021, the play ran off-Broadway at Theatre Row, produced by Gingold Theatrical Group.
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shows how he was driven into the ring exactly as Mrs. Warren was driven on the streets.
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proprietor), who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter. It is a
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BBC Television produced a television version first broadcast on 3 October 1972 on
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Vivie Warren, a thoroughly modern young woman, has just graduated from the
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owner, is described as "on the whole, a genial and fairly presentable old
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Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Johnston
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In 2022, the play was performed at the Chichester Festival Theatre with
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In 2018, Eleanor Bishop's adaptation of the play was performed at the
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The madam of a string of brothels justifies her career to her daughter
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In 2016 the play was performed at the Center Theatre in Seattle.
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on 21 April 1974. The production was released on DVD in 2006.
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The Cambridge Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Theatre
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The Cambridge companion to Victorian and Edwardian theatre
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in Auckland, New Zealand by the Auckland Theatre Company.
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in 2012, and was so popular that the season was extended.
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The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
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The play was revived in 2010 in three separate venues:
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He explained the source of the play in a letter to the
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The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God
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Index

Mrs Warren's Profession
Mrs. Warren's Profession (film)

George Bernard Shaw
Problem play
play
George Bernard Shaw
The Philanderer
Widowers' Houses
brothel
problem play
Cashel Byron's Profession
brothel
blackguard
Victorian
University of Cambridge
Wrangler
Daily Chronicle
Janet Achurch
French
Beatrice Webb
Cashel Byron's Profession
prize-fighter

Frederick H. Evans
Lord Chamberlain
Britain
censor
prostitution
London

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