Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction

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Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction is a short comic mock-melodrama by George Bernard Shaw ().


Subtitled The Fatal Gazogene: a Brief Tragedy for Barns and Booths, was originally written to raise funds for The Actors' Orphanage.

Written in 1905, it was first performed in a booth in Regent's Park, on the 14th July 1905, and the text was first published in the Christmas Annual of the same year. Later printed in the Shaw collection Translations and Tomfooleries (1926).