Modern messages found in Shaw fest trio

Post-Gazette: "But one of the services of the Shaw Festival, which takes as its mandate plays written during the lifetime of its namesake (1856-1950) or written more recently about that era, is to remind us that there was value to what Osborne supplanted. This year's best case in point is Rattigan's 'After the Fall,' a poignant state of the nation play -- not a big political panorama such as we get from David Hare (and used to get from Shaw), but political in implication, even in the absence of politics."