| Press Cuttings | |
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| Written by | George Bernard Shaw |
| Date premiered | 9 July 1909 (Civic and Dramatic Guild) |
| Place premiered | Royal Court Theatre |
| Original language | English |
| Subject | Female supporters and opponents of votes for women terrify male politicians. |
| Genre | political satire |
| Setting | The War Office, London in 1912 |
Press Cuttings (1909), subtitled A Topical Sketch Compiled from the Editorial and Correspondence Columns of the Daily Papers, is a play by George Bernard Shaw. It is a farcical comedy about the suffragettes' campaign for votes for women in Britain. The play is a departure from Shaw's earlier Ibsenesque dramas on social issues. Shaw's own pro-feminist views are never articulated by characters in the play, but instead it ridicules the arguments of the anti-suffrage campaigners.
Written in 1909, the play is set three years in the then future, on April Fool's Day 1912, by which date the actions of the suffragettes are imagined to have led the government to declare martial law in central London. Because of potentially libellous satire of real politicians, the play was originally censored in Britain, but was soon performed in public with minor alterations.