George Bernard Shaw: Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre

Brian Perchaluk Dept: Much like Shaw in his time, Canadian playwright Wendy Lill is a social reformer who addresses political and moral issues in this nearly plotless 1984 drama about Winnipeg suffragists between 1910 and 1917, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Brian Perchaluk's striking set, which rotates to present intimate domestic and office spaces that are never completely walled off from each other, might be something of a metaphor for multiple perspectives and the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre's elegant production of The Fighting Days comes on the heels of ShawFest, the company's salute to playwright George Bernard Shaw. As in Shaw, there are impassioned speeches and fierce arguments about personal freedom, social responsibility, gender roles, human rights, patriotism and pacifism. But like the Irish dramatist, Lill makes her dissenting characters highly sympathetic, drawing the viewer into weighing multiple sides of moral debates. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.