In New Hampshire in 1777, Dick Dudgeon's father dies. Called back home to the unhappy family he revolted against years ago, Dick finds he's been named heir, much to the horror of his religious mother. To complicate matters, the British have arrived.

One night, a frightened Swiss soldier of fortune climbs into the bedroom of a young Bulgarian girl and soon deflates her romantic notions about love and valor. The bonus play is set in 1796 at an inn where Napoleon rests at the start of his conquest of Italy.

On his Sussex estate Captain Shotover, an eccentric poet, retired seafarer and inventor, is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends.

Epifania is glamorous, clever...and also the richest woman in the world. But she faces the challenge her money-mad father imposed on her before his death: She can only marry a man who can convert 150 pounds into 50,000 pounds within six months.

A stuffy professor of phonetics takes a bet that in six months time he can turn a Cockney flower seller into a lady he could pass off as a duchess.

What is the profession that has enabled Mrs. Warren to give her daughter all the benefits of good society? Vivie Warren discovers her mother's secrets and embraces her own power as a 'modern' woman.

In 1924, George Bernard Shaw was introduced to Dame Laurentia McLachlan, a Benedictine nun at the Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire, England. Along with their mutual friend, Sydney Cockerell, director of Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, the trio enjoyed twenty-five years of letters, literary debate and laughter. Relive their vigorous discussions on everything from the existence of God, to the finer points of tango dancing.

Longing to marry, Bassino gives his friend's body as collateral for a loan; the richest woman in England falls for a poor Egyptian doctor; through dramatic monologue, the wife of a country vicar dishes on her fellow villagers and religion; a wealthy New Orleans matron commissions a doctor to lobotomize her niece so she will not reveal the circumstances surrounding her son's death.