Vivie is uncomfortable with her mother's advice. (frmn left: Susan Hardie, Jenna Tovey) Photo

From: FIRST LOOK: Theatre Palisades Opens MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION on 4/1

In Shaw's controversial attack on society's hypocrisy, Young Vivie Warren is intelligent and self-sufficient, but astounded to learn how her mother rose from poverty to riches through the world's oldest profession. Mrs. Warren ably justifies her past, attacking a hypocritical society that rewards vice and oppresses virtue, stating that poverty and the society that fosters poverty are the real villains. Certainly her profession is preferable to life in a 19th century factory!