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Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction
''Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction'' is a short play by Bernard Shaw, subtitled ''The Fatal Gazogene: a Brief Tragedy for Barns and Booths''. It is a comic mock-melodrama, written to raise funds for charity. It has been revived occasionally, in tandem with other short works by Shaw or by other playwrights.
==Background==
Shaw began writing the play in May 1905 and finished it on 4 June. It was published in Harry Furniss's Christmas Annual 1905, and was privately printed for copyright purposes in the US in the same year. It first appeared in book form in ''Translations and Tomfooleries'', 1926.〔Shaw (1987)〕
Shaw wrote of the piece, "This tragedy was written at the request of Mr Cyril Maude, under whose direction it was performed repeatedly, with colossal success, in a booth in Regent's Park, for the benefit of The Actors' Orphanage, on the 14th July 1905". Brandon Thomas and Lionel Brough stationed themselves outside the tent drumming up custom for the show.〔"The Actors' Orphanage Fund", ''The Times'', 15 July 1905, p. 8〕
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