Andrew Undershaft a millionaire armaments manufacturer loves money anddespises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara on the other hand shows herlove for the p... » 

Andrew Undershaft a millionaire armaments manufacturer loves money anddespises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara on the other hand shows herlove for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in theSalvation Army and sees her father as another soul to be saved. But when theArmy needs funds to keep going it is Undershaft who saves the day with a largecheque forcing Barbara to examine her moral assumptions. Are they right toaccept money that has been obtained by Death and Destruction? Full of livelycomedy and sparkling debate Major Barbara is one of Shaws most forwardlooking plays brilliantly testing the tensions between religion wealth andpower benevolence and equality and metaphors and realities of war. «