A Bulletin for George Bernard
Shaw
April 2007
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1. The Plays c.
The Shaw Season in New York e. Late
Clippings: My Fair Lady – Pygmalion – Shaw’s ‘Shorts’ – The Devil’s
Disciple |
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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 |
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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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 |
M ‘ Tony Dobrowolski as Caesar and Sienna Harris as Cleopatra head a cast that also includes Michael McAlister (Pothinus), Belinda Bremner (Ftatateeta), David Skvarla (Rufio), Joseph Bowen (Britannus), Christian Gray (Apollodorus), Terence Gallagher (Lucius Septimius), Dana Wall (Achillas/Centurion) and James Dolson (Ptolemy/Sentinel).’
* 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
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 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.