A Bulletin for George Bernard
Shaw
May 2007
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1.
The Plays d.
The
Shaw Season in New York f.
Late Clippings: Pygmalion |
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2. Shawlines a.
Conferences b.
Publications c.
The Shrines d.
Posters e. Obituary |
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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 especially
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 (
We also list performances at
Niagara-on-the-Lake and in
a.
The Shaw Festival
The 2007 Season features
The Philanderer (1st May to 7th October) and Saint 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. Reviews of Saint Joan can be found at http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/holy_warrior.html and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2052871,00.html.
The 2006
season included Arms and the Man and Too
True to be Good.
SAINT
JOAN
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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 |
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THE PHILANDERER |
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Norman Browning |
Joseph Cuthbertson |
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Ben Carlson |
Leonard Charters |
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Nicola Correia-Damude |
Sylvia Craven |
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Deborah Hay |
Grace Tranfield |
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Peter Hutt |
Colonel Craven |
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Peter Krantz |
Dr Paramore |
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Michael Strathmore |
A Page |
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Director |
Alisa Palmer |
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Designer |
Judith Bowden |
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Lighting Designer |
Louise Guinand |
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Fight Choreographer |
James Binkley |
c.
The Shaw Season in England
Peter Hall is touring a production of Pygmalion
with Tim Pigott-Smith as Henry Higgins and Michelle
Dockery as Eliza.
Theatre Royal,
Plymouth on 30th July
Theatre Royal,
Windsor on 6th August
Cambridge Arts
Theatre, Cambridge on 13th August
Malvern
Theatres, Malvern on 20th August
Oxford
Playhouse, Oxford on 27th August
Yvonne Arnaud
Theatre, Guildford on 3rd September
Darlington
Civic Theatre, Darlington on 10th
September
New Theatre
Cardiff, Cardiff on 17th September
Grand Opera
House, Belfast on 24th September
More details from lesleyldassociates@btinternet.com tel: 01293 402624
Michael Friend is producing this
year Mrs Warren's Profession:
20th to 22nd July Shaw's Corner, Ayot St.Lawrence
20th September Middlesbrough Theatre
22nd September Vera Fletcher Hall,
4th - 5th October Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre,
10th - 11th October
13th (Evening) and 14th (Mat) October
Broadstairs Memorial Theatre
19th - 20th October Opera House, Buxton
Cast includes
: Raymond Daniel-Davies, Max Davis, Sorcha Donaldson, Martin Entwistle,
Keith Myers, Dot Smith. Ten excellent
photographs can be found at http://www.mfp.org.uk/.
c.
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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Caesar
& Cleopatra |
April
14-May 7, 2007 |
various |
Ticket
Information |
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Shaw
vs. Shakespeare: |
May
24, 2007 |
LL |
6:00
p.m. |
Open
to the Public |
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7:00pm Open to the
Public Shaw vs.
Shakespeare: Open to the
Public 17th November - 10th December 2007 Saturdays & Sundays at 2pm, Mondays at 7pm Special Added Saturday evening performances A Yuletide Carol 1st December 2007 Ela Area
Public 3:00pm Open to the Public LoveScenes 6th December 2007 Chicago Drama League 1:00pm More
Information to come 12th January – 3rd February 2008 Saturdays & Sundays at 2pm, Mondays at 7pm Special Added Saturday evening performances Shaw vs. Shakespeare: 10th February 2008 2pm Open to the Public LoveScenes 5th March 2008 1pm Private Event 12th April – 3rd May 2008 Saturdays & Sundays at 2pm, Mondays at 7pm Special
Added Saturday evening performances |
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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).’
MM The Shaw display is open to the public.
Rare and wonderful volumes: the bi-alphabetic Androcles and The Lion,
the controversial and lavishly illustrated The Adventures of The
Black Girl In Her Search For God , the hilarious and un-authorized American Boobs, and
many more, and it's all free and open to the public. Visit the Newberry
Library,
* Performances are no charge
For information on all
performances,
please call 312-587-7390
Also in Chicago
d.
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
ADMIRABLE
BASHVILLE
VILLAGE
WOOING & HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND
THE
MILLIONAIRESS
MAN AND
SUPERMAN
PRESS
CUTTINGS & PASSION,
POISON and PETRIFACTION
WIDOWERS
HOUSES
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!
e. Shaw in Germany
(Notes kindly supplied by Lucia Krämer)
Androklus und der Löwe (Androcles and the Lion)
Residenz Theater München
12th, 16th May; 16th, 18th, 24th June 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
6th May;
1st, 24th June 2007
Musical Director: Stefanos Tsialis
Direction:
Christian Rinke
My
Fair Lady
Stadttheater Bremerhaven
Musical Director: Christoph Hornischer
Direction: Peter Grisebach
13th May; 3rd, 13th June 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 |
f. Late Clippings:
Pygmalion
A production is announced for 27th –
29th September at the Eastwood Studio Theatre, Eastwood,
England.
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.
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
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) @.
Shaw
Session at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference in
Buffalo, New York, 10th – 13th April, 2008.
TOPIC:
"Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion." Call for papers. You may
write on the original play, the stage or movie version My Fair Lady, the
Pygmalion/Galatea myth, or on GBS's magical creations, Eliza Doolittle
& Henry Higgins. You may treat these all together or
individually. All interpretations will be considered: Mythic, dramatic ,
musical, psycho-analytic, feminist, or personal response, etc. To foster
discussion, accepted panelists must keep strictly to 15-minute presentations,
but finished papers should be brought. Submit a 250-350 abstract with brief
Curriculum Vita via eMail to Ted Price, Montclair State University:
pricet@mail.montclair.edu by 1st September
2007, preferably earlier.
SHAW SEMINAR IN BRIONI, June 2008: For information, please click here. If interested, please email dietrich@cas.usf.edu by no later than 1st May
2007.
b. Publications & Papers
We hope readers will draw our attention
to their publications and papers on Shaw.
Professor Linda
Wong (Hong Kong
Baptist University) has kindly sent us the following:
CHEN, Yanhong,
and LI Bing. “Ibsenism in Bernard Shaw’s Drama.” Journal of
Southwest University for Nationalities (Humanities and Social Science)
6 (2006): 137-139. [In Chinese]. (China).
LEE, Chien-wen. “Views on Marriage in
George Bernard Shaw’s The Philanderer.” Chungzhengling
Journal 34.1 (May 2006): 87-109. [In English]. (Taiwan).
LU, Wei. “Comparison between Theatrical Narration of George Bernard
Shaw and Laoshe.” Journal of
SHEN, Qian. Lin
Yutang and Bernard Shaw.
SUN, Chang. “Bernard
Shaw’s Modern Drama in Major Barbara.”
Drama
Literature 8 (2006): 53-55. [In Chinese]. (China).
YIN, Minxiang. “Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion
and His Ocular and Metaphorical Presentation of Contrastive Humour.” Journal of Southwest China Normal University
(Humanities and Social Sciences Edition) 30.4 (July 2004): 182-184. (
ZHANG, Mingai. “An Analysis of Bernard
Shaw’s Social Psychology.” Academia
Biometric 3 (2006): 177-182.
[In Chinese]. (China).
ZHANG, Mingai. “The Creative Evolution Theory of George Bernard Shaw.” Journal
of Nanjing Institute of Technology (Social Sciences Edition) 4.3 (September
2004): 21-26. (
ZHANG, Xuan. “On the Characters in The
Flower Girl by Bernard Shaw.” Journal
of
The Irish
Academic Press announces the publication of The
Letters of Bernard Shaw to The Times,
Selected and Annotated by Ronald Ford, Foreword by Michel Pharand. April
2007 288 pages ISBN 978 0 7165 2918 7 cloth 978
0 7165 2919 4 paper.
‘From his first letter in
1898, Shaw was endeavouring to gain acceptance in the columns of The Times in
a way that was distinct from his other personae of critic, socialist and
playwright. Shaw took on the world of scholars, politicians, critics and the
medical profession. He offered advice on economics to different Chancellors and
got involved in the campaign for women’s rights and the
letters range over a wide variety of subjects that include Art, Music, Theatre,
Language, Phonetics, Politics, Medicine, Economics and Women’s Rights. He
became an icon who was labelled by Bertrand Russell as an iconoclast.’
–
from the press release
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We were pleased to receive the following
information from Anthony Wynn.
The new
theatrical memoir by actor Barry Morse has been released and is entitled Remember
with Advantages: Chasing 'The Fugitive' and Other Stories from an Actor’s Life,
ISBN 978-0-7864-2771-0. It is published by McFarland and Company of North
Carolina and details the experiences of Barry Morse throughout his nearly eight
decades in show business. He candidly relates his childhood as a Cockney boy in
the East End of London and his win, against all odds, of a full scholarship to
the famed Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the age of 15, where he came to know
George Bernard Shaw.
Morse would
later become Artistic Director of The Shaw Festival of Canada and President of
the London-based Shaw Society, and cites Shaw as one of the greatest influences
in his life. Morse describes how this unlikely beginning propelled him into an
international career on stage and screen, including starring roles on Broadway,
London's West End, and in television series such as ‘The Fugitive’, ‘Space:
1999’, ‘The Zoo Gang’, ‘The Adventurer’, and ‘The Winds of War’. He crosses
paths with numerous notable figures along the way, including the aforementioned
George Bernard Shaw, as well as Noel Coward, Peter Cushing, Alfred Hitchcock,
David Janssen, Robert Mitchum, and many others. Long regarded one of the most
versatile pros in show business, his book is more than just a memoir; it is a
wealth of theatrical history and stands as testament to an era which is now
gone forever. The Foreword to the book is written by Academy Award-winning
actor Martin Landau, who says, ‘Barry's life is a virtual history of the
twentieth century... and deserves to be read by everyone on the planet,
theatre-folk and civilian alike.’ The
co-authors are Anthony Wynn and Robert E. Wood.
American writer Anthony Wynn wrote the play ‘Bernard and Bosie: A Most
Unlikely Friendship’ (based on the letters of George Bernard Shaw and Lord
Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas), and the forthcoming book Talkin’ Trek and Other
Stories. Canadian Robert E. Wood is author of The Future is Fantastic!
and has also co-written the books Stories of the Theatre and Merely
Players-The Scripts. Barry, Anthony
and Robert will be interviewed in a live broadcast on KSAV streaming internet
radio (www.KSAV.com) on Tuesday, 1st May
at 7:30 pm West Coast time. On Saturday, 26th
May, all three authors will appear in-person at the London MCM Expo (www.LondonExpo.com) to speak and sign
books. The London Expo is the premier movie, comic and media show in the UK,
featuring stars from the worlds of television, film, sports and comics. Further
information about the book, appearances, and Barry Morse can be obtained by
visiting the actor's official website at www.BarryMorse.com. The book is available through all major
booksellers.
c. The Shrines
Shaw’s Corner at Ayot St Lawrence (‘See the great dramatist’s revolving Writing Hut’).
House and garden re-opened for the season
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. It will close again for the winter on 28th
October.
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, re-opens
in May 2007. It can be contacted at shawhouse@dublintourism.ie
d. 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:
We
note the death on 20th May of Montgomery (Monty) Davis, who founded and operated the
Milwaukee Chamber Theatre for 30 years, at the age of 67. Born in New York City, he was educated at
Princeton University and hisprofessional training was at the Webber Douglas
School of Dramatic Art in London, England, where he developed a love for Shaw
and the classics. He first performed in Milwaukee
at Skylight Opera Theatre before being asked in 1973 to join the Milwaukee Rep,
the largest theatrical company in the metropolis. Only two years later, he
decided to found Milwaukee Chamber Theatre with a fellow actor Ruth
Schudson. Itinerant until it took up residence
at the Broadway Theatre Center in 1993, the Chamber Theatre focused on intimate
theatre experiences and the works of George Bernard Shaw. From 1983 to 2002,
MCT was the only theatre company in the United States to produce an annual Shaw
Festival. The theatre's existence greatly expanded the opportunities of
Milwaukee-based actors, particularly those not accepted into the Rep's fold.
During his time as artistic director, Mr. Davis piloted more than 100
productions. He stepped down from the leadership post in 2004. Notable productions included of parts of Back To Methuselah
at the 2000 Shaw Conference at Marquette University, as was his production of Farfetched Fables at the 1992 Shaw
Conference at Virginia Tech.
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:
A website on the idea of chiasmus and Shaw is to be found
at http://www.chiasmus.com/mastersofchiasmus/shaw.shtml.
Two websites on teaching Shaw:
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/shaw.html
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=bernard+shaw+classroom+teaching+resource&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&vc=&fp_ip=CA
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
25th
May 2007 Leonard Conolly
talks on ‘Shaw and the BBC’.
Friday, 29th June: Alan
Knight, Secretary of the Shaw Society, on Gabriel Pascal and the Films of
Shaw.
(there are no
meetings in July and August)
Friday, 28th September: Barbara Smoker, former Shaw Society secretary, on God and GBS.
Friday, 26th October: “GBS” a rehearsed play-reading of a new play by Australian
dramatist Brian Gilchrist.
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 (12th August 2007)
brings one to volume 43, issued in 2005, and the events page only 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:
|
Richard Nickson |
The Prince and The Laureate: the Editor’s
Notation (introduction to the following, the prince being the sculptor Prince
Paul Troubetzkoy) |
|
John S. Grioni |
A Lifetime Friendship |
|
Douglas Laurie |
The Irish Echo Quotes |
|
T.F. Evans |
Letter from England |
|
Tony Stafford |
‘The End of the Hearth and Home’: The Deconstructing
Fireplace in Shaw’s Early Plays |
|
D.C. Rose |
Shaw et Certain: Two Paris Productions (review of
St Joan and Pygmalion) |
|
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 |
|
Rhoda Nathan |
Fanny’s First Play:
review of the Washington Stage Guild’s production |
|
Mark Dodd |
Shaw in Idaho (review of Major Barbara) |
|
Douglas Laurie |
Shaw on DVD |
|
|
2005 Index |
|
|
The Eric Bentley Gala |
|
|
News about Members |
|
|
Society activities |
The Table of Contents for Volume 45 2005 was
published in Shavings 19. For earlier issues, click here.
The
Independent Shavian 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 (or used to) 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: although a made an Hon. Life member in 2004, we
have been unable to make recent contact (or, rather, to receive replies). Perhaps a Dublin reader might investigate?
e. The Shaw Societies in Japan and India
We have 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
‘I have lately seen it stated that George
Bernard Shaw at one time in his early London days laid the foundation of his great fame on porridge.’
– Arthur
Lynch: My Life Story. London: John Long 1924 p.129.
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