Mrs Warren's Profession: 'tour-de-force' from Imelda Staunton and daughter Bessie Carter

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Written in 1893, George Bernard Shaw's morality play "Mrs Warren's Profession" was so scandalous at the time, it was banned by the Lord Chamberlain and not performed publicly in London until 1925.
The writer's "sin", said Susannah Clapp in The Observer, was to make his protagonist a…

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