George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 comedy takes its name from the first words of Virgil’s Aeneid—“Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate / And haughty Juno’s unrelenting hate, / Expelled and exiled, left the Trojan shore.” And yet Shaw’s play is a reaction against the Latin poem. The Aeneid is an epic about a Trojan who wages a heroic war against the Romans. Arms and the Man, set against the backdrop of the Serbo-Bulgarian War, presents warfare in a decidedly unheroic light. A pacifist, Shaw focuses on inept and cowardly soldiers who abandon their jobs to chase women. This revival of one of Shaw’s most popular plays is directed by David Staller. —Jensen Davis