A guy on a bicycle had a major prang and we ended up at the Shaw Festival. A good friend of good friends, an experienced cyclist, went off the road while on a group ride and ended up in hospital. As a result he couldn't attend a performance of Major Barbara by GB Shaw and we bought the tickets. We got to spend time with folk we really enjoy and see the performance but we feel really badly for the injured friend.
According to the AI summary:
"Major Barbara" by George Bernard Shaw is a play that explores the intersection of religion, social responsiblity and wealth. It centers on Major Barbara Undershaft, a dedicated Salvation Army officer, whose beliefs are challenged by her father, Andrew Undershaft, a wealthy arms manufacturer. Their worlds collide as she grapples with the implications of accepting donations from morally questionable sources and questions the true nature of salvation and societal structures.
Lieutenant Margaret Farmer (Mundy)
The play was written over a century ago but it certainly sounds current, doesn't it? The plot touched because my late mother grew up in the Sally Anne was a Salvation Army officer for several years before
leaving to become a part of the United Church in the early 1950s. She was Lieutenant Margaret and
I'll never know if she saw a production of Major Barbara.
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My dad was also a lieutenant in the Salvation Army, and stationed in Stellarton , NS, before he had to leave the work - no family financial support, and a very poor congregation - he and his fellow officer had to share a knife ! He came home , to become a regular soldier and bandsman . Although I have been in the UCC for 46 years, I have to confess to still feeling a bit of yellow red and blue blood running in my veins - mostly in the music.
There are plenty of ex-pat Songsters and Band Members and they do seem to enjoy warbling. The knife story sounds like the basis of a murder mystery Judy!
That knife survived in my parents' utensil drawer for decades - it couldn't cut butter!
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