Too true to be good : Village wooing & On the rocks. Three plays
Too true to be good: The central character is a rich young woman dying for the want of a purpose in life. She escapes her cosseting mother to revel in idle opulence, but realises that cocktails and cocaine offer no satisfaction, either. In this bright young thing's encounters with a putative preacher and a Bible-reading soldier, we see that Shaw's point isn't merely that money buys unhappiness: it's that humankind has lost all compass. Life in the aftermath of a world war is a hopeless muddle, but no one -- not governments nor armies, rich nor poor, young nor old -- has the prescience or the courage to reorganise society along more meaningful lines
Print Book, English, 1934
Constable and Co., London, 1934