NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE -- For all its many faults, and because of a few of 'em, The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza manages to highlight the best and the worst of the playwright Bernard Shaw.

Viewed in the hindsight of the seven decades that have elapsed since the play was written, the production which opened here at the Shaw Festival, on the stage of the Court House Theatre last night, certainly proves Shaw's skill as a social observer. Written as much as a social commentary as a piece of political science fiction, the play, set "sometime in the future," suggests that Shaw had his finger not just on Britain's pulse, but on its crystal ball as well.
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