It is a burden. He who bearsthe brand of Cain shall rule the earth. Will. Be thankful to your parents, whoenabled you to hand on your burden to new and better men, and won foryou an eternal rest; for it was we who invented death. to beAdam, Adam, Adam through more days than there are grains of sand by thetwo rivers, and then be as far from the end as ever! It gives us the strength by which we made you and all mankind.Cut off from the clay which you despise, you would perish miserably. ADAM. Listen.I am old. I call yours the Devil. Then I must, though I loathe it. Yousee things; and you say 'Why?' Some Reflections on Back to Methuselah in Performance Critics have had divided reactions to Back to Methuselah. She is a mere girl of fifty-six and looks more like nineteen to the Elderly Gentleman, who is approaching seventy. No. Let Eve vow to loveyou until your death. Youfight because you think that your fighting makes her admire and desireyou. He says he is with the Prime Minister, who is married to his daughter and with General Aufsteig, who is really the Emperor of Turania, travelling incognito. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. That is why thereis enmity between Woman the creator and Man the destroyer. Yet I do not want youto die before me. [_To Eve_] We have made our vows; and if you mustcreate, you shall create within the bounds of those vows. I tell you I am verysubtle. Turned from the clay. Think of it, man: to have no escape! But how? . Amaryllis provides amusing interludes throughout the remainder of the play. ADAM. ADAM. Listen to me, Eve; and you,snake, listen too, that your memory may hold my vow. But why did she divide into two, and make us different? Eve looks after them for a moment; then, with a shiver of disgust, sitsdown on the rock, brooding. She does so and asks if he still wants to consult an older person. That is whatmakes me sit brooding and silent and hateful. But I dream things that never were; and Isay 'Why not?' THE SERPENT. I say, who invented death? At that point the Minister of Health phones again to tell Burge-Lubin she has changed her mind and invites him to share an amorous adventure aboard her yacht, presently in Fishguard Bay. Suppose you were to trip and fall, would you go like that? Close at handthe end of a log house abuts on a kitchen garden. I should belonely. An immense serpent is sleeping withher head buried in a thick bed of Johnswort, and her body coiled inapparently endless rings through the branches of a tree, which isalready well grown; for the days of creation have been longer than ourreckoning. THE SERPENT. EVE. ADAM. Bernard Shaw's epic "Back to Methuselah", which was first performed in 1922, has been revived by The Royal Shakespeare Company to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Shaw's death. [_He turns quickly towards the serpent, and in doingso puts his foot on something sharp_]. The Ancient refuses, saying he is too mature for gambolling; ancients must stick to their own ways of enjoyment. We shall fall like thefawn and be broken. 2) Methuselah also was the oldest of all known mankind. He will not. That is very true. The state of them that love death more than life. EVE. She agrees to let him stay and grasps his hands and looks at him. Do you never think ofthat? [_Flourishing his spear_] Try it, oldeverybody's father. EVE. You can imagine such an end; but you cannot desire it,therefore cannot will it, therefore cannot create Adams only. EVE. Think of that! Two must shareit. _Adam springs to his feet. The Oracle tells him that he will die of discouragement if he stays behind. He is to take an aeroplane to the location and be dropped near the yacht by parachute. What have you made of yourselves? In the glade, a group of youths and maidens, all appearing to be eighteen or older are dancing gracefully to music played on flutes. EVE [_shaking him_] Adam: you must not brood. The Ancient leaves the children to their play. But if I createanother Eve he may turn to her and do without me. When he falls, he shall beavenged sevenfold: the Voice has said it; so beware how you plot againstme, you and all the rest. ADAM [_uttering a grunt of disgust_]!!! CAIN. I can never be alone.You always want to know what I have been doing. THE SERPENT. They drag us down to the level of the beasts. Then I too willed to renew myself as two instead of one; and aftermany days the miracle happened, and I burst from my skin another snakeinterlaced with me; and now there are two imaginations, two desires, twowills to create with. His meal cost him a day's glorious health-giving sport andan hour's amusing play with the fire. THE SERPENT. Yes, because she looked at another man. stronger, happier, freer? THE SERPENT. Near her head alow rock shows above the Johnswort. ADAM. ADAM. Both Burge-Lubin and Barnabas are considerably put off because they stand in awe of her although they deem her quite good-looking. Of the coming true of your dreams and mine. Will you die the moment you have made a new Eve? She loved me more than ever. ADAM. Be silent, both of you. She looks seventeen years old. He foundout that the fire of the sun could be brought down by a dewdrop. [_Adam points to the fawn_]. EVE. ADAM [_releasing her_] That is true. ADAM. And I will love Eve all that time and noother woman. But who taught you to speak? When there are new Adams and new Eves we shall live in a garden ofstrangers. EVE. The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas is intended to teach an audience what readers of the Preface are assumed to have learned. EVE. It was playing about; and it tripped and went head over heels.It never stirred again. I call that renewal being born. ADAM [_springing up in sudden terror_] Oh! the curses of despair!the shrieks of torment! Why not be born again and again as I am, new and beautifulevery time? Peace, peace, you two fools. I was troubled with the burdenof eternal being; but I was not confused in my mind. THE SERPENT. ADAM. One of them is cynical, not believing longevity will happen, but the other deems the theory valid, yet rejects the prospect out of hand because longer lives will be available to everyone instead of only the elite. They tell me too of their last-born:the clever thing the darling child said yesterday, and how much morewonderful or witty or quaint it is than any child that ever was bornbefore. You are still tempted. He begs the oracle to respond in the same way she did to his illustrious predecessor, Sir Fuller Eastwind. She is not yet visible to anyone unaware of her presence, asher colors of green and brown make a perfect camouflage. Hush! ADAM. I do not want to kill women. I want her to create moreand more men: aye, and more and more women, that they may in turn createmore men. As a result, governmental dignities are mere figureheads, useful only for formalities and ceremonial occasions. It has not yet told me the secret. Something quite different to myself, like you. Allll the way back to the beginning, with a series of. He leaves the group and seeks out the Oracle, begs her to let him stay on the island, says he will die of disgust and despair if he goes back home. Yes: it must not be. Yet I do not know how to prevent it. A scene from the Barry Jackson production of George Bernard Shaw's 'Back to Methuselah' at the Court Theatre, starring Colin Keith Johnson as Adam, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies as Eve and Edith Evans as the serpent, 1924. Sheer fabrication, but so pleasing to the voters that he stayed in power for another fifteen years. I followed your teaching. English Deutsch Franais Espaol Portugus Italiano Romn Nederlands Latina Dansk Svenska Norsk Magyar Bahasa Indonesia Trke Suomi Latvian Lithuanian esk . Why should I? After their conversation, Burge-Lubin suggests a game of marine golf, but Confucius refuses on the ground that he is too mature to enjoy playing games. The new Adams and Eves might kill us. EVE. They have not will enoughto create instead of dreaming; but the serpent said that every dreamcould be willed into creation by those strong enough to believe in it.There are others who cut reeds of different lengths and blow throughthem, making lovely patterns of sound in the air; and some of them canweave the patterns together, sounding three reeds at the same time, andraising my soul to things for which I have no words. Come [_he seizes her by the hair to dragher away_]. It is terrible; but there is no joy like it. I want to be born!" The snake andthe woman are going to whisper secrets. Their remains are collected, using sanitary precautions, and burnt at Pygmalion's laboratory, which is also destroyed. EVE. EVE. The heavens are empty, child. . producer (5 episodes, 1952) Series Art Department Stephen Bundy . A housemaid announces the opportune arrival of Lubin and Burge, two prominent politicians with antagonistic viewpoints; they will serve as sounding-boards while the brothers present their case for the need of longer lifetimes. THE SERPENT. No matter: some day I shallforget and stumble. Cassio from 'Othello'3rd Gentleman from 'The Winter's Tale'Cain from 'Back to Methuselah' by George Bernard Shaw I gathered a part of the life in my body, and shut it intoa tiny white case made of the stones I had eaten. He need not. Fear will drive me to anything. CAIN. Michael Holroyd describes the plays as "a masterpiece of wishful thinking" and calls them science fiction. Because I hatecreatures with two heads, or with withered limbs, or that are distortedand perverted and unnatural. ADAM [_scolding her_] Why do you say that? I like you; but I do not like myself. A monologue of The Serpent from Back to Methuselah. EVE. You sometimes sit for hoursbrooding and silent, hating me in your heart. 4004 (In the Garden of Eden), The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas: Present Day, The Thing Happens: A.D. 2170, Tragedy of an Elderly Gentleman: A.D. 3000, and As Far as Thought Can Reach: A.D. 31,920. When she merely lifts her veil he shrieks that he is dying, covers his eyes, and begs her to veil herself again. CAIN. You say thatI make a mere convenience of Adam: I who spin and keep the house, andbear and rear children, and am a woman and not a pet animal to pleasemen and prey on them! The birthing proceeds: In procession, youths carry a new tunic, ewers of water, big sponges and, finally a huge egg, which is placed upon the altar. You must clear away some ofthose horrid things, or we shall be scratched and stung whenever weforget to look where we are stepping. Eve: do notplay with me about this. He has invented tomorrow.You will invent things every day now that the burden of immortality islifted from you. he is coming. As long as you do not know the future you do not know thatit will not be happier than the past. And others makelittle mammoths out of clay, or make faces appear on flat stones, andask me to create women for them with such faces. EVE [_trying to shake it and roll it over_] It is stiff and cold. You are always spying on me. I had not thought of that. And it is courage, courage, courage, thatraises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Whatcertainty have you of your thousand years? You call that love! It is; and it is not. He is utterly disdainful of the simple farming life and soon rudely goes away. Sheshall have no other food; and that will make her my slave. THE SERPENT. EVE. Zozim belittles that display as well, but the visitors are overawed and become unnerved completely when the oracle appears as an insubstantial figure amidst lightnings and thunder. The creations are a man and woman, noble in appearance, beautiful to look at and splendidly attired. Let us listen to the snake. claim that all sensible people agree with him, put forward in Back to Methuselah by both Savvy and Professor Conrad. Oh! EVE. You see, life is too long. CAIN. And the manthat slays me shall have her for his booty. What did the Voice say to you when you thought all that? CAIN. THE SERPENT. I am to be a mere convenience to make men for you to kill! EVE. The serpent never dies. The shouts of triumph! And I am very wilful, andmust have what I want; and I have willed and willed and willed. That is true. That is the word that means boththe beginning in imagination and the end in creation. Man shall be the master ofWoman, not her baby and her drudge. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. EVE [_to Adam_] You think, perhaps, that his way of life may be betterthan yours after all. You can feel nothing but atorment, and believe nothing but a lie. ADAM. EVE. sister projects: Wikipedia article, Wikidata item. THE SERPENT. CAIN. EVE. ADAM [_in sullen rage_] I have half a mind to shew you that my spade cansplit your undutiful head open, in spite of your spear. They would not have the same memories. Our snake has learntto speak by listening to us. The opening scene is a sunlit glade at the foot of thickly wooded hill, on a warm summer afternoon in 31,920 AD. But I know very well that what you mean isthe horror of having to be here with me for ever. I hardly know which of you satisfies me least, you with yourdirty digging, or he with his dirty killing. Those whom I slay woulddie if I spared them. He has not noticedthe serpent on his left hand. I cleared away the thistles and briars. When Lilith told me whatshe had imagined in our silent language (for there were no words then) Ibade her desire it and will it; and then, to our great wonder, the thingshe had desired and willed created itself in her under the urging of herwill. That is what hasbrought me to my mother today. She had a mighty will: shestrove and strove and willed and willed for more moons than there areleaves on all the trees of the garden. I adore her. ADAM. What? Child-eating! She is outraged when I _will_ bind the future. THE SERPENT. Why, I--I! He says he is the world's foremost general, invincible in battle, and adored by all his followers, although his victories cost great carnage. How am I a greater fool than you? You have no real strength in your bones nor sap in your flesh. Death is not an unhappy thing when you have learnt how toconquer it. CAIN [_rising_] You did well: I, too, do not want to live for ever. Adam must not perish. The growth of Shaw's own imaginative response to the catastrophe of war became a deliberate project in which he encapsulated his general conclusions about imagination based on his experience of confronting (Shaw was in his mid-60s when the plays were written). That is the word. I tell you I will create, though Itear myself to pieces in the act. Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch by Bernard Shaw - Free Ebook Project Gutenberg 70,452 free eBooks 62 by Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah: A Metabiological Pentateuch by Bernard Shaw Download This eBook Similar Books Readers also downloaded Bibliographic Record [4] Nevertheless, he uses both terms in Man and Superman which was written nine years before Bergson's work was published. You learnt nothing from him: youdrudged and drudged and drudged, and dug and dug and dug, and made me dothe same. THE SERPENT [_responding affectionately_] It is so, dear Adam. Do you love your godmother Eve? Does not theVoice tell you that as no man dare slay you for murdering your brother,you ought to slay yourself? What a beautiful word! I thought for a moment that perhaps thisstrong brave son of mine, who could imagine something better, and coulddesire what he imagined, might also be able to will what he desireduntil he created it. The earthfeeds us. But only some. She buries herface in her hands_. For you werethe first children in the world, and filled us with such wonder anddelight as no couple can ever again feel while the world lasts. You do care. Back to Methuselah: With Fanny Rowe, Ursula Howells, Ellen Pollock, Ernest Clark. These wonders that you promise to do may tangle up my beingbefore they bring me the gift of death. EVE. Adamlooks worried, like a farmer. Creation must not be strangled. Pygmalion has successfully created a pair of living, artificial human beings and is ready to display them, which he does, to an audience made impatient by his incomprehensible scientific explanations. Instead of breathing you sneeze, or coughup your insides, and wither and perish. Mother: the making of men is your right, your risk, your agony,your glory, your triumph. THE SERPENT. What is the good of being careful? Some of them will neither dig nor fight: they are moreuseless than either of you: they are weaklings and cowards: they arevain; yet they are dirty and will not take the trouble to cut theirhair. Yes: you have to twirl a stick to feel your strength: you cannottaste life without making it bitter and boiling hot: you cannot loveLua until her face is painted, nor feel the natural warmth of her fleshuntil you have stuck a squirrel's fur on it. You are idle: you are selfish. I worship you, Eve. No: I do not think about myself: what is the use? ADAM. It is a cycle of five plays which Shaw calls a 'metabiological pentateuch'. ADAM. You say itgives us strength: does it not also turn into filth and smite us withdiseases? THE SERPENT. For that is what it would come to,just as it came to lambs and kids when Abel began with sheep and goats.You are a poor silly creature after all. EVE. I shall not make them. The voice in the garden is your own voice. who have the labor of the child-bearing: I! As night is falling, the children seek shelter in the temple. Yes: it was by meditating on Life that I gained the powerto do miracles. EVE. Try a taste of fighting. And I to him! Lua was awoman-child when I bore her. Look. Oh yes, some of them, of course. This will please him, and cure his fits of melancholy. Yourhair streams in the wind as if it were trying to stretch itself furtherand further. THE SERPENT. And there, next to it, a briar. Alone for ever. By that he is tied to you. But is it long enough for theother things, the great things? ADAM. You imagine what you desire;you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will. ADAM. _Cain kicks the hurdle out of his way, and strides into the garden. It is not only its eyes. Promise me you will be careful. there was not one new Lilith but two:one like herself, the other like Adam. Think. [_he seizes his spear and swings it muscularly_]. I have crept through the grass, and hidden, and listened to you. Why should I forget it? data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAKAAAAB4CAYAAAB1ovlvAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAw5JREFUeF7t181pWwEUhNFnF+MK1IjXrsJtWVu7HbsNa6VAICGb/EwYPCCOtrrci8774KG76 . "Baghdad?" ha! The first scene opens with England's president, Burge-Lubin (descendant and composite of the politicians seen in The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas) squabbling with a Barnabas descendantvia telephones equipped with televisionabout which of them should welcome a visiting American who has invented a method for breathing underwater. You and Adam. Sooner thanface a thousand years of it I should kill myself, as the Voice sometimestempts me to do already. The Emperor of Turania, calling himself Napoleon, impatient of ceremony, bursts into the courtyard of the Temple of the Oracle. Funny. Yes, until you create another Adam. I revolt against the clay. EVE. Martellus apparently brought nothing and Arjillax is jeered because he brought busts of ancients, which the children think are ugly; they want youthful beauties, like themselves. [12] The BBC, in contrast, was able to provide lavish scenery by sheer power of description for its 1958 radio production of the entire play,[13]. I am not lying: I dare all truths. He steals and kills for his food;and makes up idle poems of life after death; and dresses up histerror-ridden life with fine words and his disease-ridden body with fineclothes, so that men may glorify and honor him instead of cursing him asmurderer and thief. Food drawn down from heaven, made out of the air, not dug dirtilyfrom the earth. The Ancients' evolutionary goal, he tells the. I despised myself fornot doing as he did instead of what you did. But am I idle? CAIN. Afternoon. I will divide them into two greathosts. He was in the line of ten godly descendants that preserved the godly promise. Burge-Lubin declines the offer. Do you stay and listen to it. The Prime Minister's choice was clear. Darkness ensues and the ghost of Adam appears as a vague radiance. Of newly createdthings. You slay the tiger at the risk of yourlife; but who gets the striped skin you have run that risk for? And all that comes of it is that he wants to be abear and eat children. Back to Methuselah is an epic-length play by George Bernard Shaw - not a writer given to brevity normally - so long and unwieldy, in fact, that Washington Stage Guild estimates that this three-year production is only the third or fourth full production of the play since it was written, in 1920. It must not be, I tellyou. When Ican bear no more, I go to our old garden, that is now a mass of nettlesand thistles, in the hope of finding the serpent to talk to. If only the sentinel set by the Voice can berelieved! Back to Methuselah Broadway Revival Ambassador Theatre 219 W. 49th St., New York, NY SYNOPSIS: playwright: George Bernard Shaw People (21) Cast Current Cast Opening Night Production Credits. An oasis in Mesopotamia. "Poor short-lived thing!" No: he invented it himself. There is nosuch day as tomorrow, and never can be. Meanwhile, the Archbishop, having learned of the furore at the Records Office, presents himself for questioning. I had not thought of that. (The Jewish Publication Society translation,1917). I will bedelivered from fear. Go on with yourspinning; and do not sit there idle while I am straining my muscles foryou. ADAM [_instinctively moving his hand towards her_] Husband and wife. Never forget it. ADAM. Everything is possible. Mine is the Voice of Life: yours the Voice of Death. You are very subtle. I shewed the little case to the sun, and left it in itswarmth. I do not want to be a bear. EVE [_turning impatiently to the snake_] That heart-biting sound again!Do not do it. I am the most subtle of all the creatures of the field. For all that, mother, I have an instinct which tells me that deathplays its part in life. I, who have so muchin me that I hate and long to cast off! Yes, until you create another Adam. What a frightfulthought! She asks if he is a foreigner and he denies it and says he is a Briton who lives in the capital. EVE [_admiring it_] Oh! You and Adam. You must tell us your secret. So that is what comes of turning your face to the clean clearheavens! However, after a swift reconciliation, he is invited to join the festivities. To desire, to imagine, to will, to create. There ishero and superman. THE SERPENT. It was for that that Lilith set you free from thetravail of women, not for theft and murder. The official database for Broadway theatre information . Their dread of death is overwhelmed by the yet more dreadful prospect of life unending, with its tedium and burdens, but they feel bound to live forever because Eden must be taken care of and they are the only ones available to do it. This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1928. When you have to snare the little tender birdsbecause it is too much trouble for her to chew honest food, how much ofa great warrior do you feel then? [_He sits down on the stone_]. He need not. Turned upward to the sun, to the clear cleanheavens. You make my father here your mere convenience,as you call it, for that. That is too long astory. A few centuries later. Because Back to Methuselah is made up of five full-length plays, it is extremely difficult to produce. It cannothappen. Part 1 opened on February 27, 1922; Part 2 opened on March 6, 1922; and Part 3 opened on March 13, 1922. . And there is Enoch, who walks on the hills, and hears theVoice continually, and has given up his will to do the will of theVoice, and has some of the Voice's greatness. One quotation from Back to Methuselah is frequently misattributed to Robert F. Kennedy, even though Kennedy stated that he was quoting Shaw"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' It is admittedly possible to find some excuses for the negative side of his arguments, especially the refusal to be convinced by Darwin. Shaw, Bernard. Youthful nurses are provided to tourists to keep that from happening but he has evaded Zozim, the one assigned to him. Thatis birth. That is the true nature of woman. She enjoys the flirting, but rejects a rendezvous and breaks the connection. EVE. It is that care thatwill prompt your imagination; inflame your desires; make your willirresistible; and create out of nothing. He turns his face to his right and callsexcitedly. ADAM. How can I destroy unless she creates? and internal kicking rocks it so hard that it must be held steady to keep it from rolling off the altar. You are more her slave than Adam's ox oryour own sheepdog. Yes:there is no such thing as nothing, only things we cannot see. Shetakes it to lie on, and flings you the carrion flesh you cannot eat. Coo-ee! It said that my deed was as a mark on me, aburnt-in mark such as Abel put on his sheep, that no man should slay me.And here I stand unslain, whilst the cowards who have never slain, themen who are content to be their brothers' keepers instead of theirmasters, are despised and rejected, and slain like rabbits. [She strokes it and pets the serpent]. Adam is digging in themiddle of the garden. One does not speak to a child as to a man.And a man does not listen and tremble in silence. Why do you do it? EVE. I could kill both of you; andyou could no more defend yourselves than a couple of sheep. Through him and his like, death is gaining on life. Life is still long enough to learn to dig, short as they aremaking it. EVE. An immense serpent is sleeping with her head buried in a thick bed of Johnswort, and her body coiled in apparently endless rings through the branches of a tree, which is already well grown; for the days of creation have been longer than our reckoning. You must not move about.You must sit still. I donot know what I want, except that I want to be something higher andnobler than this stupid old digger whom Lilith made to help you to bringme into the world, and whom you despise now that he has served yourturn. You are hard enough to bear with as you are. Burge-Lubin considers that impossible and calls Barnabas mad. THE SERPENT. There is something else.We do not yet know what it is; but some day we shall find out; and thenwe will live on that alone; and there shall be no more digging norspinning, nor fighting nor killing. I was a fool. When you and Adam talk, I hear you say 'Why?' ADAM. Theynever want to die, because they are always learning and always creatingeither things or wisdom, or at least dreaming of them. It was true: Isaw the fire consume the food on his altar. CAIN. I have striven with a man: spear to spear andshield to shield. Its first full production was at the Garrick Theatre in New York, with acts 1 and 2 being . Other articles where Back to Methuselah is discussed: George Bernard Shaw: Works after World War I: plays under the collective title Back to Methuselah (1922). There must besomething greater than the snake. Your hood is most lovely. I made the word dead to describe my old skin that I castwhen I am renewed. The sun will give life. Be it so. I musthave certainty. 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