Misalliance

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Misalliance
Written by	George Bernard Shaw
Date premiered	23 February 1910
Place premiered	Duke of York's Repertory Theatre
Original language	English
Subject	Odd goings on at a country house
Genre	satirical comedy
Setting	A house in Surrey

Misalliance is a play written in 1909–1910 by George Bernard Shaw. The play takes place entirely on a single Saturday afternoon in the conservatory of a large country house in Hindhead, Surrey, in Edwardian era England.

It is a continuation of some of the ideas on marriage that he expressed in 1908 in his play Getting Married. It was also a continuation of some of his other ideas on socialism, physical fitness, the life force, and the "New Woman": i.e. women intent on escaping Victorian standards of helplessness, passivity, stuffy propriety, and non-involvement in politics or general affairs.

Shaw subtitled his play A Debate in One Sitting, and in the program of its first presentation in 1910 inserting this note: "The debate takes place at the house of John Tarleton of Hindhead, Surrey, on 31 May 1909. As the debate is a long one, the curtain will be lowered twice. The audience is requested to excuse these interruptions, which are made solely for its convenience."

The Irish playwright Lennox Robinson assisted Shaw when he was directing the original London production of the play.^[1]