A Bulletin
for George Bernard Shaw
February 2007
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1. The Plays c. The Shaw Season in New York e. Late Clippings: My Fair Lady – Pygmalion – The Devil’s Disciple – Shaw’s ‘Shorts’ |
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2. Shawlines a. Conferences b. Publications c. The Shrines d. Posters |
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a. The International Shaw Society c. The Bernard Shaw Society & The Independent Shavian |
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6. Tailpiece |
In this section we try to cover productions of Shaw's pre-1901 plays, and news of productions of these (with offers of review) will be most welcome. The plays are Arms and the Man (1894), Cæsar and Cleopatra (1898), Candida (1895), Captain Brassbound's Conversion (1899), The Devil's Disciple (1897),The Man of Destiny (1895), Mrs Warren's Profession (1893),The Philanderer (1893), Widowers' Houses (1892), You Never Can Tell (1895). (Dates of composition, not first performance.) Wilde is known to have attended the first night of Arms and the Man (20th April 1894). Apart from those listed at Niagara-on-the-Lake and in Chicago, Shaw’s twentieth century plays are noticed in Late Clippings.
The
2007 Season will see The Philanderer
(1st May to 7th October) and St Joan
(21st April to 27th October). We can
also mention Lady Gregory’s Kiltartan
Comedies (20th June to 6th October), The Cassilis Engagement by St John Hankin, and Feydeau’s Hotel Peccadillo.
The 2006 season included Arms
and the Man and Too True to be Good.
Information
from the Shaw Chicago Theatre Company at http://www.shawchicago.org/
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Performance |
Show Dates
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Location |
Show Times |
Information |
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Love Scenes* |
February
28, 2007 |
7:00pm |
Open
to the Public |
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Shaw vs. Shakespeare: |
March
13, 2007 |
7:00pm |
Open
to the Public |
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Women of Shaw: Strong, Smart, and Unsatisfied!* |
April
19, 2007 |
7:00pm |
Open
to the Public |
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Caesar & Cleopatra |
April
14-May 7, 2007 |
various |
Ticket
Information |
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Shaw vs. Shakespeare: |
May
24, 2007 |
6:00pm |
Open
to the Public |
* Performances are no charge
For information on all performances,
please call 312-587-7390
The Gingold Theatrical Group, directed by David Staller, is giving a reading of a Shaw play at The Players, 16 Gramercy Park South every month. The schedule is
19th February 2007 @ 7.00 p.m.
THE MUSIC CURE & INTERLUDE at the PLAYHOUSE
19th March 2007 @ 7.00 p.m.
DOCTOR'S DILEMMA
23rd April 2007 @ 7.00 p.m.
ANDROCLES AND THE LION
21st May 2007 @ 7.00 p.m.
ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE
18th June 2007 @ 7.00 p.m.
VILLAGE WOOING & HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND
23rd July 2007 @ 7.00 p.m.
THE MILLIONAIRESS
17th September 2007 @ 7.00 p.m.
MAN AND SUPERMAN
22nd October 2007 @ 7.00 p.m.
PRESS CUTTINGS & PASSION, POISON and PETRIFACTION
19th November 2007 @ 7.00 p.m.
WIDOWERS HOUSES
17th December 2007 @ 7.00 p.m.
More information can be found at http://projectshaw.com/. We thank Richard Dietrich for alerting us to this,
and for sending us the following note:
David Staller's ‘Project Shaw’ in NYC, which is doing
Shaw's entire dramatic corpus over three years, that being the amazing
part. Now that I've seen a production for myself, I have to let you
know that this is ‘amazing’ in many other ways as well, and you should kick
yourself if you don't see it. First of all, the location, the Players
Club in Gramercy Park, is worth a visit all by itself. Established
by Edwin Booth, this place serves as some sort of unofficial Hall of Fame for
American actors, whose portraits line the wall. That may be one
reason that Staller is able to get some of the best actors, mostly of the
Broadway and Hollywood type, to do these once-a-month concert readings. For free! They
do it for the love of it and the enjoyment they get. The actors do
this also because Monday night is a night off in the theater, but the effort
and talent and skill that goes into this suggests a residue of interest in Shaw
by actors that is not apparent in the major theaters. I witnessed on Feb.
19th some delightfully intelligent presentations of three one-acts (perhaps the
only Shaw plays I've never seen acted!) of ‘Interlude at the Playhouse,’ ‘The
King, the Constitution, and the Lady,’ and ‘The Music Cure,’ starring Marian
Seldes and, lo and behold, Paxton Whitehead, the man whose playing of Shavian
roles at the Shaw Festival in the 70s was instrumental in our making visits
there a holy habit. At the end of this performance, a lady behind
us exclaimed, in a surprised voice, ‘This is better than Broadway!’
Tickets are available online by credit card at http://www.projectshaw.com/ and by calling 212-352-3101. $15 per ticket, going on sale the first of every month (the production is the third Monday of every month, for at least another year). And they sell out fast. In April, most of the major theater critics in the New York area will be cast as the Christians who are thrown to the lions in ANDROCLES IN THE LION. Don't miss that!
Arms and the Man
… was produced at the English Theatre, Vienna, 6th November to 22nd December 2006. Barbara Pfeifer has sent us the information that you will find information on the cast as well as pictures directly taken from one of the performances on the website http://www.englishtheatre.at/English/Saison06-07/ArmsAndTheMan/main2.html
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Olivia Wright |
Raina Petkoff |
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Kate Dove |
Catherine Petkoff |
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Marianne Permaul |
Louka |
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Christopher Buchholz |
Captain Bluntschli |
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Howard Nightingall |
Russian Officer |
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Timothy Speyer |
Nicola |
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Roger Forbes |
Major Paul Petkoff |
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Tom Sykes |
Major Sergius Saranoff |
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Director |
Philip Dart |
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Designer |
Alison Hefferman |
The very successful Paris production opens
on 17th March at the Théâtre de Vevey, Vevey,
Switzerland.
Director: Nicolas Briançon. Décor: Jean-Marc Stehlé. Costumes: Michel Fresnay. Production: CADO Centre National de Création d’Orléans, Théâtre Comedia Paris. Cast: Barbara Schulz, Nicolas Vaude, Danielle Lebrun, Henri Courseaux, Jean-Claude Barbier, Odile Mallet, Catherine Alcover. Understudies: Pierre-Alain Leleu, Fleur Houdinière, Bruno Henri, Maurine Nicot, Jean-Paul Lopez. During its Paris run in 2006 it was reviewed, together with a Paris production of St Joan, in the autumn issue of The Independent Shavian.
The Washington Stage Guild (Washington, D.C., that is) announces
Shaw's Shorts – O'Flaherty V.C.,
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets, and The Man of Destiny.
Directed by John MacDonald.
1st March to 1st April 2007.
My Fair Lady
A production by the Wivenhoe Gilbert & Sullivan Society at the William Loveless Hall, Wivenhoe, England, runs from 27th February to 3rd March.
The Devil’s Disciple
… was broadcast on the wireless station BBC7 on Saturday March 10th.
In this section we will print all the news that we find or, better still, are sent. We especially welcome news of Shaw on curricula.
We also wish to record articles and papers relating to the earlier Shaw, and news of new editions of Cashel Byron's Profession (1886), An Unsocial Socialist (1887), The Quintessence of Ibsenism (1891), The Perfect Wagnerite (1898), Love Among the Artists (1900), as well as other related material.
In acknowledgment of Bernard
Shaw’s sesquicentennial, the International Shaw Society sponsored a special
session at the 2006 MLA December Philadelphia meeting that explored Shaw's
writings, both dramatic and non-dramatic, in a contemporary context.
An ISS-Sponsored
Special Session on ‘Shaw as Playwright’
will be held at The 31st Annual Comparative Drama Conference, 29th, 30th & 31st March 2007.
Conference
Location: Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles), California.
Sponsoring
Institution: Loyola Marymount University
Shaw
Session Sponsored By: The International Shaw Society, www.shawsociety.org
Conference Director: Dr. Kevin
Wetmore, Department of Theater Arts, Loyola Marymount University, 311 Foley
Theatre, 1 LMU Drive, MS 8210, Los Angeles CA 90045-2659 Phones: Office: 310.338.7831 FAX:
310.338.1984.
For
details about this conference, email Dr. Wetmore at kwetmore@lmu.edu or check the CDC website at
https://myweb.lmu.edu/compdrama. Check www.shawsociety.org
for links.
To
register for this conference, send email to compdram@lmu.edu
and a registration form will be sent to you.
Conference
Fee: If pre-registered, $89 for faculty and $79 for graduate students, $69 for
session chairs, $59 for guests. Add
$10 if registering at the conference.
The Comparative Drama
Conference originated in 1976 at the University of Florida, and, after 24
years, moved to The Ohio State University where it was held for five years. It
moved to the Los Angeles area in 2005. The conference is open to all aspects of
theatre, with a strong emphasis on dramatic texts. The publication of the
conference is Text and Presentation
Call for Papers for SHAW 28: Shaw and
War.
SHAW is The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies and is published in hard bound in the Fall. Below the Guest Editor for Volume 28 describes the sorts of papers she is looking for. Deadline 15th May 2007.
SHAW 28: Shaw and War
Lagretta Tallent Lenker, Guest Editor
Perhaps more than any other playwright of the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, Bernard Shaw, in many of his controversial dramas, probes the
age-old ambivalence of humanity toward war. Although himself opposed to
war, Shaw could comprehend and brilliantly dramatize society's love affair with
violence and combat, even as he satirizes this often fatal liaison.