George Bernard Shaw sets his tale in 1885, where Raina's bourgeois Bulgarian family is caught up in the heady patriotism of the war with Serbia. The beautiful, headstrong Raina eagerly awaits her fiancé's victorious return from battle—but instead meets a soldier who definitely prefers romance and chocolate to fear and bullets. War may be raging on the battlefield, but it's the battle of the sexes that heats up this extraordinary comedy and offers very different notions of love and war.

Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February of 2006.