(photo: Christopher O. Banks)

You Can Never Tell
March 3, 2005-April 10, 2005

The Guild returns to the cannon of George Bernard Shaw to revive one of his earliest successes, a comedy set in a hotel in an English seaside town. They do a grand job of it as everyone throws themselves into the inspired tomfoolery while paying sufficient attention to Shaw's strength of craft and display of verbal dexterity to make this such a fun this piece transporting you back to a genteel but nonetheless constantly entertaining 1900. Shaw published the script as one of his "Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant" - this one was and is definitely in the "pleasant" group.

Storyline: A woman who has taken to extremes the unorthodoxy often attributed to then-modern suffragettes brings her three teenage children to a seaside resort only to have a chance encounter with her estranged husband whose existence has been unknown to the children. Through the always proper intervention of the waiter at the hotel, parents and children find the basis for a relationship.

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