Sharpenicity

  Washington Stage Guild does it again with outstanding   Mrs. Warren’s Profession None of the characters in  George Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession   agree with what  a woman should  do with her life.   No one will disagree that  the 2022 Washington Stage Guild production makes  it very clear that it is about CHOOSING their OWN  destinies. First written in 1893,  the play was not performed until 1902  because of government censorship over prostitution. Later the cast and crew were arrested by police in a 1905 performance for violating NYC’s version of the Comstock laws. The police report said it was shocking, but what was upsetting was not the profession (which is never stated)  but that society's treatment of women, that what drove them into that line of  work  should even be in question. Fast forward to the fight for the ERA, and change in law  that is long overdue, and that guarantees  equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex and ends the leg