Vivie Warren is a well-educated young woman, with clear, dispassionate plans for her future life and career. Over the course of two days, those plans are upended as she discovers how her mother earned the fortune on which they both live.
Mrs. Warren’s Professionwas shocking to the audience for whichGeorge Bernard Shawwrote it in 1893; so much so that it could not be publicly performed until 1925, with the 1902 London...