George Bernard Shaw is a universally acknowledged classic playwright in the modern British theatre, known equally for his great wit and his theatrical influence. Genesius Guild has repeatedly staged two favorites over the years, "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets" (most recently in 2001), and "Don Juan in Hell" (most recently in 2012). The little play "How He Lied to Her Husband" was a parody-version of a longer play of Shaw's that had caused a sensation and a scandal: "Candida." Just as the guardians of morals suspected might happen in real life, in Shaw's short piece he imagines a love affair prompted, even licensed in the minds of the participants by the love triangle at the focus of "Candida." As in the longer play, a young poet in love disrupts the domestic stability of the married couple; as in the longer play, the woman stays with her husband in the end. But Shaw has of course put his own characteristic witty spin on this sillier version of his own ideas.

Credits:

Narrator - Mollie Schmelzer

She (Aurora Bompas) - Sarah Willie

He (Henry Apjohn) - Jack Bevans

Her Husband (Teddy Bompas) - John Wright

Director / Organizer / Sound Editor - Mischa Hooker

Sound effects by BBC

Tim_Y, "Tangled Tango"

Chopin, Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 69, no. 1 and Waltz in B minor, Op. 69, no. 2 (performed by Olga Gurevich)