George Bernard Shaw. Filozofická komedie. Režie Peter Hall. Produkce Catherine Bailey. Hudba Mark Thomas.
Nastudovalo BBC Radio 3. Premiéra 20. 10. 1996 (BBC Radio 3, 04:12:30).
Pozn.: Peter Hall’s production of the full play (including the Don Juan in Hell scene). – Subtitled ‘‘A Comedy and a Philosophy,’’ George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman is a comedy of ideas: its characters discuss ideas such as capitalism, social reform, male and female roles in courtship, and other existential topics in long speeches that resemble arias in an opera. The play’s verbosity makes it unwieldy to produce full scale in the theatre, and the scene in Hell, containing the bulk of the play’s philosophical musings, is often dropped, but it is included in this radio production.
Act I
Respectable Roebuck Ramsden and brash John Tanner are shocked to discover they must share jointly the guardianship of Ann Whitefield, whose father has just died.
Act II
The scene opens in the drive of a country estate, where a competent chauffeur, Enry Straker, attends to a broken-down touring car while Tanner looks on helplessly. The chauffeur and Tanner banter nearly as equals about driving fast, which scares Tanner and exhilarates his employee.
Act III
The “Don Juan in Hell” scene was not included in the first production but was separately staged at the Royal Court Theatre in 1907. The tradition of producing this scene separately has continued, but is included here.
Act IV
The scene shifts to a villa on a hillside that looks onto Alhambra, a Medieval Moslem castle.