Jane

Jane

Overview

From the playwright of Biography and No Time for Comedy, this Somerset Maugham fable inspired by Shaw's Pygmalion is brought to the stage in glittering style and wit. Jane is a wealthy but dowdy middle-aged widow who is transformed by a young artist into the sensation of London society only to find that an 'ordinary' existence is more suited to her temperament.

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Authors

S.N. Behrman

S.N. Behrman (1893-1973) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1893, the son of Lithuanian immigrants. As a boy, he worked as an usher in a theatre in Worcester, and at fifteen, he ran away to New York City. After high school, he attempted a career as an actor but later ret ...

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