L to R: Ernie Carnevale as Major Littlebone, Penny Hauffe as Catherine Littlebone, Steve Beggs as Captain Hay, Brittany Barrett as Elizabeth Littlebone, Millie Shipe as Betty, and Christopher Saunders as Henry James Hamilton Clodfelter in the show's 2006 premiere
ARMS & THE HIGHLANDER:
A Revolutionary Romantic Comedy
A Colonial American adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's ARMS & THE MAN
by playwright Meredith Bean McMath
A Revolutionary Romantic Comedy
A Colonial American adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's ARMS & THE MAN
by playwright Meredith Bean McMath
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"McMath’s adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play “Arms and the Man” is full of exchanges that make a guy nostalgic for a language alive with wit and humor, with deliberation and suggestion, a language rich enough to express the complicated truth about each of us and thereby make it possible for us to know ourselves.”
- Mark Dewey, The Blue Ridge Leader, 2006 This Colonial American adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man begins just after the Battle of Yorktown.
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Brie Reid as Elizabeth Littlebone and Christopher Saunders as Captain Gabriel Hay in the 2018 production
As Americans realize they've won the war, they're celebrating in the streets. Young Elizabeth Littlebone has just heard the news that her love led the final charge, and tucks into bed with great pride and dreams of a happy future in a brand new America.
But in the street below, a British Mercenary Soldier is running for his life. When he spies Elizabeth’s open window, he climb up the side of the home and is certain he's made a brave escape. But he's never met a brave, new American lass.
Full of biting humor and a grand love story, McMath adapted Shaw's play to make the work more accessible to modern audiences (Shaw's original was set in the generally unknown 19th c. Serbo-Croatian conflict). Arms and the Man premiered in 2006 to critical acclaim.
SETTING: Wealthy American home
First Act: Elizabeth Littlebone's bedroom
2nd Act: Littlebone Dining and sitting area
TIME PERIOD:
Act One: fall 1781
Act Two and Three: spring 1782
CAST OF 8
CAPTAIN HAY - mid-30s, a Scot serving as a mercenary soldier for the English
ELIZABETH LITTLEBONE, early 20s
LIEUTENANT HENRY JAMES HAMILTON CLODFELTER, American Soldier
CATHERINE LITTLEBONE, wife of Major Littlebone
MAJOR LITTLEBONE
BETTY, Young female Servant to the Littlebone household
SOBER AMERICAN SOLDIER / JOHN, a Littlebone Servant
RUNNING TIME: 1.5 hours
VISIT THE GALLERY
For PERFORMANCE RIGHTS, contact Meredith Bean McMath via Run Rabbit Run Productions at [email protected] or by calling McMath at 571-209-7386.
US Copyright PAu003025672 / 2006
But in the street below, a British Mercenary Soldier is running for his life. When he spies Elizabeth’s open window, he climb up the side of the home and is certain he's made a brave escape. But he's never met a brave, new American lass.
Full of biting humor and a grand love story, McMath adapted Shaw's play to make the work more accessible to modern audiences (Shaw's original was set in the generally unknown 19th c. Serbo-Croatian conflict). Arms and the Man premiered in 2006 to critical acclaim.
SETTING: Wealthy American home
First Act: Elizabeth Littlebone's bedroom
2nd Act: Littlebone Dining and sitting area
TIME PERIOD:
Act One: fall 1781
Act Two and Three: spring 1782
CAST OF 8
CAPTAIN HAY - mid-30s, a Scot serving as a mercenary soldier for the English
ELIZABETH LITTLEBONE, early 20s
LIEUTENANT HENRY JAMES HAMILTON CLODFELTER, American Soldier
CATHERINE LITTLEBONE, wife of Major Littlebone
MAJOR LITTLEBONE
BETTY, Young female Servant to the Littlebone household
SOBER AMERICAN SOLDIER / JOHN, a Littlebone Servant
RUNNING TIME: 1.5 hours
VISIT THE GALLERY
For PERFORMANCE RIGHTS, contact Meredith Bean McMath via Run Rabbit Run Productions at [email protected] or by calling McMath at 571-209-7386.
US Copyright PAu003025672 / 2006