At one point in the Olney Theatre Center’s current production, a character says of his future father-in-law: “… this is the man who objected to my marrying his daughter on the ground that a marriage between a member of the great and good middle class with one of the vicious and corrupt aristocracy would be a misalliance.”

Thus the title of George Bernard Shaw’s comedy, “Misalliance.” Yet this brilliant work of social criticism and comment is not simply about marriage between different classes. It also takes on politics, fidelity, imperialism, capitalism, reading, power, sex and food.