The Devil’s Disciple – “A Lot of Fun, Impressive!”; It’s Happening! New Shows Open: NiteClub and BuzzStuffBuzzin' Lee Hartgravebyline‚ Nov. 14‚ 2008THE DEVIL’S DISCIPLE – A FUN CLASSIC George Bernard Shaw’s play is set in a small New Hampshire town in 1777. The colonists were in rebellion against British rule, and you could get hanged for treason for doing so. In the first act, Shaw gives us straight melodrama. There is a widow, a destitute mother, and a black-sheep son, who saves the husband of the woman he is having an affair with. Talk about desperate housewives. Then there is the local minister. The Redcoats want to hang him to make the townsfolk sit up and take notice that they could be next. But, comes along Richard Dudgeon who proclaims himself as the ‘devil’s disciple.’ When the British come for the Minister, who is out at the time Dudgeon puts on the Minister’s Long Coat and pretends to be the man that they are looking for. And he is headed for a trial and a surefire hanging. His own! |