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DTEND:20130113T010000 LOCATION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Shoebox
Theater (2110 SE 10th Ave., , ) DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-
PRINTABLE:In the first minutes of George Bernard Shaw’s anti-
militarism comedy, a Swiss mercenary named Bluntschli crashes
through a stranger’s window after fleeing a battle in the Serbo-
Bulgarian War. Sleep-deprived and grubby, he begs the room’s
beautiful young Bulgarian occupant, Raina, to hide him. And upon
learning he’s the sort of soldier who crams his pockets not with
cartridges but with chocolates, she fortifies him with a box of
chocolate creams. From there, Shaw, who was a pacifist and
socialist, debunks not only romantic illusions of war, but also
the hypocrisy of class differences, the immorality of keeping
servants and the posturing xenophobia of patriotism. It’s a
systematic, satirical takedown, stacked with biting one-liners.
This Northwest Classical Theatre Company production, directed by
Alana Byington, tu