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
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