"As Far as Thought Can Reach" is a play that takes place in the year 31,920 AD, in a world where great longevity is the norm and short-lived people are a mere footnote in ancient history. The play follows a group of children at a nursery, where a birth is scheduled and the Festival of the Artists is being celebrated. The children encounter an...More
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political...More
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years before his first public success, Arms and the Man in 1894. Influenced by Henrik Ibsen, he sought to introduce a new realism into English-language drama, using his plays as vehicles to disseminate his political, social and religious ideas.
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"As Far as Thought Can Reach" is a play that takes place in the year 31,920 AD, in a world where great longevity is the norm and short-lived people are a mere footnote in ancient history. The play follows a group of children at a nursery, where a birth is scheduled and the Festival of the Artists is being celebrated. The children encounter an Ancient, a physically youthful man with a wrinkled, timeworn face, who teaches them about the nature of life and the destiny of humans. The play features themes of immortality, art, and the value of life.
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