Word: dudgeon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during the American Revolution, in a New Hampshire town, and proceeded to aim a lot of barbs at the bumbling British. King George's soldiers are moving from town to town, hanging well-known citizens as examples they hoped would deter Americans from further rebellion. When Dick Dudgeon, a reckless reprobate, is mistaken for a Presbyterian minister, he prevents the minister's wife from disabusing the arresting soldiers and marches off to his supposed death...
...play proper introduces us first to Mrs. Dudgeon, the one thoroughly unplesasant and unsympathetic person Shaw ever fashioned. Through her Shaw was attacking what he viewed as the worst aspects of organized religion. In this production the role is in the capable hands of Margaret Hamilton, making her Festival debut (she played the same role a dozen years ago in Philadelphia). Those to whom this name means nothing will more easily recognize her as the Wicked Witch of the West in the famous movie The Wizard of Oz. My own most admiring recollection of her comes from seeing her play...