Shaw Festival’s ‘The Apple Cart’ is a startling speculative fiction that makes the case for the monarchy
And now at the Shaw Festival, he has transformed into an idealistic British monarch confronting an institution-threatening crisis in George Bernard Shaw’s “The Apple Cart.”
The constitutional crisis, Proteus explains, stems from a speech Magnus delivered in which he argued in favour of his using of a royal veto, “the only remaining defence of the people against corrupt legislation.” In Magnus’s long monologues, Shaw makes as strong a case as you can find onstage about the merits of a constitutional monarchy. That these speeches are always compelling is a testament to Rooney’s skill.
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