Too True To Be Good

Shaw’s Too True To Be Good is full of surprises. Any play that sets the scene in a classically beautiful upper-middle-class bedroom inhabited by a classically beautiful upper-middle-class girl, then starts the action with a distressed microbe in human form bemoaning his fate, is surely asking you to check your assumptions at the door.

Move on to the next scene where the “sickly” young girl joins forces with her nurse and a burglar, running away with them to hold herself for ransom, and you start to realize that you are in for a truly fantastical treat! And never fear — no matter how far out Shaw goes, there is always room to hit his favourite targets along the way!