Show Plot Chocolate Soldier

Authors: Oscar Straus

Time Period: 1885

Setting: Small town in Bulgaria

Summary: The Chocolate Soldier is a famous 1908 Viennese operetta, adapted from George Bernard Shaw’s play Arms and the Man. The comedic, anti-war story follows Bumerli, an unheroic, pragmatic Swiss mercenary who hides in the bedroom of an idealistic Bulgarian woman, exposing the absurdities of romantic ideas of war.