What is Mrs Warren’s profession?

Her daughter Vivie has never really known much about her mother. A prim young woman, she has enjoyed a comfortable upbringing, a Cambridge education and a generous monthly allowance. Now she has ambitions to go into Law. But is it conceivable that all this privilege and respectability has been financed from the proceeds of the oldest profession in the world? How will Vivie react when she finds out the awful truth about her mother’s ill-gotten gains?

Shaw’s ultimate test of a mother-daughter relationship is one of his wittiest and most provocative plays, which lays bare the rampant hypocrisy of Victorian society and its constrained morals, evident by the fact that Mrs Warren’s Profession was written in 1894 but banned until the 1920s.

Felicity Kendal is one of the UK’s best loved actresses who is well known for her television credits including The Good Life and Rosemary And Thyme. Her stage credits include The Vortex, Amy’s View and The Last Cigarette in the West End.