A Bulletin for
George Bernard Shaw
March 2007
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'Oh, Shaw! That's the man who smokes Jaeger cigarettes!' – Oscar Wilde, quoted by Richard Le Gallienne: The Romantic Nineties. New edition. London: Putnam & Co. 1951 p.81.
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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 e. Posters |
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a. The International Shaw Society c. The Bernard Shaw Society & The Independent Shavian |
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6. Tailpiece |
1. The Plays
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). With those listed at Niagara-on-the-Lake and in Chicago, brief notices are given in Late Clippings.
a.
The Shaw Festival
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.
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Norman
Browning |
Archbishop |
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Harry
Judge |
Le Dauphin |
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Marla
McLean |
Page |
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Blair
Williams |
Warwick |
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Patrick McManus |
Dunois |
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Andrew
Bunker |
Poulengy |
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Peter
Krantz |
Chaplain de Stogumber |
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Ben Carlson |
Cauchon |
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Billy Lake |
Soldier |
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Martin Happer |
Courcelles |
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Thom Marriott |
La Tremouille |
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Tara Rosling |
Joan |
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Ric Reid |
Baudricourt |
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Jesse Martyn |
Soldier |
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Douglas E. Hughes |
La Hire |
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Michael Strathmore |
Soldier |
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Director |
Jackie Maxwell |
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Set & Costume Designer |
Sue LePage |
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Lighting Designer |
Kevin Lamotte |
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Composer |
Paul Sportelli |
b. The Shaw Season in Chicago
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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Shaw vs. Shakespeare: |
March 13, 2007 |
7:00 p.m. |
Open to the Public |
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Women of Shaw: Strong, Smart, and Unsatisfied!* |
April 19, 2007 |
7:00 p.m. |
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 |
6:00 p.m. |
Open to the Public |
* Performances are no charge
For information on all
performances,
please call 312-587-7390
c. The Shaw Season in New York
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 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!
d. Shaw in Germany
(Notes kindly supplied by Lucia Krämer)
Androklus und der Löwe (Androcles and the Lion)
Residenz Theater München
22nd, 31st December 2006; 10th, 17th, 25th
January; 2nd, 6th, 12th, 20th February; 3rd, 15th, 19th March; 5th, 15th, 18th, 24th April
2007
Director: Dieter Dorn
Decor: Dieter Dorn, Gotthard Wulff
Costumes: Monika Staykova
Music: Rudolf Gregor Knabl
With Anna Riedl, Lisa Wagner, Rudolf Waldemar Brem, Burchard Dabinnus, Matthias Eberth, Maximilian Löwenstein, Thomas Loibl, Oliver Nägele, Felix Rech, Arnulf Schumacher, Michael Tregor, Rudolf Wessely, Stefan Wilkening and the Kung Fu Academy Berlin Bambang Tanuwikarja and Benjamin Schiegl.
My Fair Lady
Das Meininger Theater
Meiningen
4th, 13th February; 11th
March; 30th April 2007
Musical Director: Stefanos Tsialis
Direction: Christian Rinke
My Fair Lady
Stadttheater Bremerhaven
16th,
31st March; 8th April 2007
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Daniela
Stuckstette |
Eliza Doolittle |
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Hans Neblung |
Professor Henry Higgins |
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Günter Pirow |
Colonel Pickering |
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Klaus Damm |
Alfred P. Doolittle |
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Christine Dorner |
Mrs. Higgins |
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Iris Wemme |
Mrs Pearce |
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Ralph Ertel |
Freddy Eynsford-Hill |
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Andrea Fitz |
Mrs. Eynsford-Hill |
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Musical Director |
Christoph Hornischer |
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Director |
Peter Grisebach |
My Fair Lady
Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, Munich
11th,
12th, 22nd March; 9th April 2007
Musical Director: Hans-Joachim Willrich
Direction: August
Everding (1984)
Set: Jörg Zimmermann Costumes: Jörg Zimmermann; Choreographer: Dougie Squires. German translation: Robert Gilbert. Cast not named, but many photographs, on website.
e.
Late Clippings:
The Devil’s Disciple
MacOwan Theatre, London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art
27th, 29th, 31st March;
2nd, 4th April
Director: Peter James
Designer: Richard Bullwinkle
Pygmalion
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.
My Fair Lady
Perhaps the spring brings out the flower sellers. My Fair Lady is being staged in England by the Wivenhoe Gilbert & Sullivan Society at the William Loveless Hall, Wivenhoe, England, 27th February to 3rd March; by the Selsey AC & Operatic Society, Manhood Community College, Selsey (11th – 14th April); the Chapeltown & District Amateur Operatic Society Rotherham Civic Theatre, Rotherham (24th – 28th April); the Hartlepool Stage Society, Town Hall, Hartlepool (24th – 28th April); the Littlehampton Players Operatic Society, The Windmill Entertainment Centre, Littlehampton (25th-28th April); in Scotland by the Johnstone Phoenix Theatre Group, Johnson Town Hall, Johnson (24th – 28th April), and in Wales by the Benllech Melody Makers, Community Hall, Benllech (23rd – 28th April).
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.
The Devil’s Disciple
… was broadcast on the wireless station BBC7 on Saturday March 10th.
2. Shawlines
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.
a. Conferences and Calls for Papers
‘Bernard Shaw at
150: Theater, Criticism, Contemporaneity’
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.
Shaw's multivalent ideas on war inform many of his major plays, including Arms and the Man, Caesar and Cleopatra, Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, and Saint Joan. These and other Shavian plays dramatize GBS's commitment to ‘make war on war’ and his abiding interest in the subject. The age-old ambivalence of humanity toward war is hard to comprehend and still more difficult to express. Through his incisive dramatic forensics, Shaw explores this perplexing paradox and makes us confront the issue of war, which is both the anathema and apotheosis of humankind.
SHAW 28 will build on the growing body
of critical literature that studies Shaw and war, and the guest editor of that
volume invites papers for consideration that explore Shaw's dramatic
and non-dramatic writings on war and human aggression. Of special
interest are papers addressing Shaw's perspective on war through the lens of
peace, gender, love and romance, and history. The guest editor also welcomes
articles on Shaw's discussions with his
contemporaries about war and encourages bibliographic essays on Shaw and
war. Submission deadline is 15th May 2007.
Please format manuscripts in the accepted style of SHAW (consult recent
volumes) and send to the following address:
Dr. Lagretta Tallent Lenker
Department of English
CPR 107
University of South Florida Tampa, FL 33620
Questions about the volume may be directed to (e-mail) @.
CfP for a special session at MLA 2007
Chicago on ‘George Bernard Shaw and History’.
Possible topics may include (but are not limited to): Shaw and problems
in literary history and/or theater history; history and genre; historiography
and metahistory; religion, theology, and history; Shaw on scientific,
philosophical, and theoretical approaches to history / scientific,
philosophical, and theoretical approaches to history on Shaw; politics,
economics, ideology, and history; periodization: Shaw on the historical
periods (classical antiquity, middle ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, etc.) /
periodizing Shaw (Shaw as modernist? anti-modernist? counter-modernist?);
historicism; presentism; apocalypse and the end of history; posthistory;
prediction, prophecy, and the history of the future.
Sponsored by the International Shaw Society (www.shawsociety.org). Deadline for
abstracts and short CV is 15th March 2007. Send to Charles Del Dotto @
Charles Joseph Del Dotto
Visiting Lecturing Fellow
Department of Theater Studies
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
cjd@duke.edu
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/English/grad/cjd
2007 Shaw Symposium at the Shaw Festival in Ontario, 29th, 30th, 31st July.
For call details see http://www.shawsociety.org/Shaw-Symposium-2007.htm. Deadline 15th
April.
b. Publications & Papers
We hope readers will draw our attention to their publications and papers on Shaw. Last month we published the abstract of a paper given at the annual ISS conference at Brown University last summer by our Associate Editor Barbara Pfeifer and an note on article by Leigh Woods, Head of Theatre Studies at the University of Michigan.
c. The Shrines
Shaw’s Corner at Ayot St Lawrence (‘See the great dramatist’s revolving Writing Hut’) closed for the season on 29th October. House and garden reopen on St Patrick’s Day, 17th March from 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m. (house) and 12.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. (garden), closed Monday and Tuesday.
Click the picture to find their website; the e-address is shawscorner@nationaltrust.org.uk.
© NTPL
/ Matthew Antrobus
The Shaw Birthplace in Synge Street, Dublin closed for the season on Sunday 1st October 2006 and will re-open in May 2007. It can be contacted at shawhouse@dublintourism.ie
d. A Shaw Collection
Non-specialists may have missed news of the acquisition in 2002 of the Samuel Freedman collection of Shaw material by the Burns Library, Boston College, comprising more than 3,400 items. See the website at www.bc.edu.
e. Posters
We have been showing posters that the Footlights Gallery have for sale, and in future when these are no longer on offer we shall place them on a Posterwall with a link from here. We shall also add posters from current productions as they come to hand.
The following are currently to be found on the Footlights Gallery website.
FOOTLIGHTS Gallery & Gifts
240 East Main Street, Ashland, OR 97520 USA
Phone & Fax: 541-488-5538
(Voice: 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Pacific Time, 18:00-2:00 UTC; Fax: 24 hours)
E-mail: footlite@cdsnet.net.
AllPosters (www.allposters.com) are also offering
this reproduction of a Vanity Fair print:
3. Echoes of Oscar
Or, When Shaw texted Wilde
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‘It is almost incredible that Oscar’s essays and novels and dramas should not have had an effect upon the mind and conceptions of a man like Shaw’. – H.M. Hyndman: Further Reminiscences. London: Macmillan 1912 p.221. |
This section of Shavings takes up the challenge implicit in Hyndman’s statement and explores textual similarities in the work of the two writers. We will add to this from time to time, and readers are warmly invited to contribute their own aperçus. Formerly incorporated into this main section of Shavings, it now has its own page, reached by clicking here. New lines will be announced here, and then transferred.
4. Bibliographies & Links
This section (a. GBS for Wildeans: A Bibliography of 19th century Shaw; b. Websites and blogs) has now also been recreated on it own page, reached by clicking here. New items will be announced here and then transferred. Do please draw our attention to new publications.
Latest added:
Christopher S. Nassaar: ‘Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and Shaw's Mrs Warren's Profession, in The Explicator, Vol. 56 (Spring 1998), 137-138. Argues that Wilde's play is a chief influence on Shaw's.
5. SHAW ASSOCIATIONS
a. The International Shaw Society
The early days of the ISS were chronicled in Shavings as the Society was being formed. It created a website at http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/international_shaw_society/index.html, but this was not updated after 2003 and thus remains in the words of its leading article ‘strictly experimental and illustrative’, being replaced by The International Shaw Society Newsletter and Bulletin Board first at http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/iss.htm and now at www.shawsociety.org. This is a fully developed website, partly restricted to members of the iss but with much information and news on open access. It has recently created a Blog at gbs.shawsociety.org. The Society’s current executive is
R. F. Dietrich, President @
Don Wilmeth, Vice President
Lagretta Lenker, Treasurer @
Norma Jenckes, Recording Secretary @
Lori Ruse-Dietrich,
Membership Secretary @
We will carry news of the activities of the ISS as it comes to hand. The next business meeting of the entire ISS will be on 30th July 2007 at the Shaw Symposium at the Shaw Festival. Non-members who are prospective members are welcome to attend meetings.
b. The Shaw Society of England
The website of the English Society formerly at http://www.shawsociety.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk has been redesigned and moved to http://www.shawsociety.org.uk. The Shaw Society was founded on 26th July 1941, Bernard Shaw's eighty-fifth birthday. He wanted nothing to do with the idea…
The society meets in London every month for lectures and play readings, on the final Friday of the month (January to June and September to November) at 6:30 p.m. at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London. Its journal, The Shavian (edited by Ivan Wise), is produced approximately every 9 months, and The Newsletter (edited by Philip Riley) three times a year: New Year, Spring and Autumn.
Coming events:
At Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London
30th March 2007 Mark Saltzman talks about his new play Mr Shaw Goes to Hollywood
27th April 2007 Lauren Arrington gives a talk on and readings from O’Flaherty VC
25th May 2007 Leonard Conolly talks on ‘Shaw and the BBC’.
No new events beyond this are yet (2nd April) announced.
The Shaw Society Reading Group meets on the first Friday of each month at Barry Morse’s flat in London. Details from Malcolm Wroe tel. 020 7485 8902.
Membership costs £15 per annum and for two people at the same address there is a family rate of £22 per annum. For overseas members US$30 or the equivalent. For further details contact Evelyn Ellis, Membership Secretary, The Shaw Society, 1 Buckland Court, 37 Belsize Park, London NW3 4EB +(0)20 7794 7014. Tel/Fax: 020 7794 7014. Email: @
c. The Bernard Shaw Society
This may be reached at P.O. Box 1159, Madison Square Station, New York, N.Y. 10159-1159: the website is http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~dietrich/shawsociety.html. This website address leads to a new front page, and this has been recently brought up to date, but the link to the ‘current’ number of The Independent Shavian still brings one to volume 43, issued in 2005, and the events page still refers to events of 2006 and 2005.
The current officers and advisory board are Richard Cordell, Edwin Burr Pettet, Richard Nickson (Presidents Emeriti), Rhoda Nathan (President), Daniel Leary (First Vice President), Sally Peters (Second Vice President), Douglas Laurie (Secretary), John Koontz (Treasurer); Jacques Barzun, Eric Bentley, Patrick Berry, Montgomery Davis, R. F. Dietrich, Howard Kissel, Maureen Murphy, Richard Nickson, Margot Peters, Jay R. Tunney, Robert Neff Williams (advisory board). No forthcoming events are recorded.
The Society publishes The Independent Shavian, edited by Patrick Berry. Volume 44 nos 1-2 2006 has actually been published. The Table of Contents is as follows:
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Richard
Nickson |
The Prince and The Laureate: the Editor’s
Notation (introduction to the following, the prince being the sculptor Prince
Paul Troubetzkoy) |
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John
S. Grioni |
A Lifetime Friendship |
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Douglas
Laurie |
The Irish Echo Quotes |
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T.F.
Evans |
Letter from England |
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Tony
Stafford |
‘The End of the Hearth and Home’: The
Deconstructing Fireplace in Shaw’s Early Plays |
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D.C.
Rose |
Shaw et Certain: Two Paris Productions (review of
St Joan and Pygmalion) |
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John
P. Koontz |
‘Mr. Shaw’s Time is Filled Up for Months to
Come’. An exhibit of the Samuel N.
Freedman Collection of George Bernard Shaw, the Honorable John J. Burns
Library, Boston College |
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Rhoda
Nathan |
Fanny’s First Play: review of the Washington Stage Guild’s production |
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Mark
Dodd |
Shaw in Idaho (review of Major Barbara) |
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Douglas
Laurie |
Shaw on DVD |
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2005 Index |
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The Eric Bentley Gala |
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News about Members |
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Society activities |
The Table of Contents for Volume 45 2005 was published in Shavings 19. For earlier issues, click here. The Independent Shavian appears three times a year and is sent to all members of the Bernard Shaw Society at no charge as part of their membership dues. To subscribe to the journal or to order a number, click here.
d. The Dublin Shaw Society.
This maintains no website but may perhaps be contacted through the Hon. Chairman, Brian Mc Grath @ The Society meets on the third Wednesday of every month in the United Arts Club, 3 Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2. Membership is €15 p.a., for an individual, €25 for a couple, although this information may be out of date: we have been unable to make recent contact.
e. The Shaw Societies in Japan and India
We have recently established contact with these Societies, and hope to have regular news of their activities. The Society in India is suitably named Shaw’s Corner.
6. TAILPIECE
‘[T.W.H.] Crosland saw himself and Bosie as a couple of lonely fighters, standing shoulder-to-shoulder against the onslaughts of all other editors, most politicians, countless writers, everyone who had ver annoyed either of them, any firm which failed to advertise [in The Academy], most authors of books for review, nearly all dramatists, the “Carmelite Wolf”, Bernard Shaw, Clement Shorter, Suffragettes, “Pulpit Politicians”, and a score of other enemies.’
– Rupert Croft-Cooke: Bosie, The Story of Lord Alfred Douglas, His Friends and Enemies. London: W.H. Allen 1963 p.220.
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