The Devil's Disciple

by George Bernard Shaw
directed by Barbara Oliver
October 31, 2008 - December 7, 2008

3 Added Performances!
show length: 2 hours with intermission

Set in a New England village during the Revolutionary War, the scandalous Richard Dudgeon, a self-proclaimed devil’s disciple, finds himself mistaken for the local reverend…and arrested by the British army as a rebel. Dudgeon goes along with them and pretends to be the wanted man. Was it for love, country, or duty, or did the devil make him do it? Brimming with Shaw's trademark humor and paradoxes, The Devil’s Disciple brings Shavian wit and “swashbuckling action” to America (it is his only play set in the U.S.).

Aurora Theatre Company founding Artistic Director Barbara Oliver, who directed the company’s productions of Shaw’s The Man of Destiny, The Philanderer, Saint Joan, and others, brings her Shavian expertise to this classic comedy.

“The play, which pokes fun at self-important piety and political arrogance with equal gusto, …is full of event, swashbuckling action, sexual tension and looming violence.” - New York Times