Androcles and the Lion by George Bernard Shaw

Nov. 21, 22, 28, 29, 30
Gwen Shea Hall, Centre Wakefield La Pêche

This comedy is based on Aesop’s fable of the same name: A man befriends a lion by taking a thorn out of its paw. Later, he faces the lion in the Roman Colosseum. Shaw’s comic retelling satirizes intolerance as we watch his characters decide whether it’s worth dying to defend their values.