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scenes from Why She Would Not

The Medicine Show concludes its 30th anniversary season with the world premiere of an unfinished play by George Bernard Shaw called Why She Would Not. Written in 1950, it contains just five scenes. Shaw died before completing the sixth, planned scene. Now Medicine Show provides ten different endings, each the work of a different contemporary playwright in his or her own style. The playwrights are: Liz Duffy Adams, Kenneth Bernard, Katherine Burger, Lonnie Carter, Denise Duhamel, Jeff Goode, Lucas Hnath, Julie Mandel, Patrick Mullowney, and Howard Pflanzer.

Shaw's fifth scene ends with his heroine Serafina refusing to marry the hero Bossborn. The ten endings range from a quasi-Shavian extension of the play to a Victorian striptease to blank verse to Disneyland.