Melissa Errico's Theatrical Role

Major Barbara

Cast included: Boyd Gaines (Adolphus), Melissa Errico (Barbara), Jack Ryland (Undershaft), Schyuler Grant (Sarah/Jenny), Rob Sedgewick (Bill Walker), Charlotte Moore (Biddy)

This classic play by George Bernard Shaw tells the story of a young woman who joins the Salvation Army for its idealistic principles only to learn it is governed by the Capitalism she always rebelled against. Ultimately she learns to teach her gospel to the well-paid happy workers at her father's munitions factory whose "souls are hungry because their bodies are full." She will never again be accused that her converts were "bribed with bread." Staged at the Irish Repertory Theater, with Melissa Errico in the title role, this production was directed and designed by Tony Walton. See Press and Awards.