Robert Campbell

After watching Arms and the Man at the Shaw Festival, I researched the history of the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War and I was rather shocked to learn how George Bernard Shaw's creative license almost completely eclipses the truth in the matter... Of course, the play is a comedy, not a historical documentary, but did he have to change so much?

I hope you get a chance to visit Niagara-on-the-Lake this summer and attend a performance of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man at the Shaw Festival. If you read the play beforehand, you may notice the role of the director when you watch the piece performed live on stage.