2018.4.15. Major Barbara at Portland Center Stage

4/15 7:30pm. I very much enjoyed Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw. Witty and sarcastic dialogues. One intermission, 4 acts (3 sets). They change the set, some actors change costumes without lowering the curtain. Efficient and well made stage set. Plot summary: an industrialist in the munition business unable to find a suitable successor returns to his estranged family. His daughter Barbara had become a major in Salvation Army, helping the poor, refusing to take the blood money from his father, while her superior happily accepts his check and honoring him. He visits her shelter, and the family visits the factory and the village the factory has built. A banner hangs in the factory: "Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done".