Arms and the Man

The play stars with the gunfire on a dark street in a small provincial town. A starving, exhausted soldier running for his life bursts into a young woman's room, finds outrage,criticism, solace, chocolate creams and unexpected love and that's just the opening scene. Shaw develops an ironic contrast between two central characters, Major Sergius Saranoff, a handsome young daring Bulgarian officer, in contrast, Captain Bluntschli, a professional soldier from Switzerland, acting like a coward. The romantic and willful Raina is about to begin her true-life adventure by sheltering the handsome fugitive Bluntschli, enemy of equally handsome fiance Sergius.