A Bulletin
for George Bernard Shaw
November/ December 2006
With the new series of THE OSCHOLARS which began in October 2006, Shavings (which began as a section within THE OSCHOLARS and then became one of it supplementary pages) further emancipated itself and became one of the Irish Literary Bulletins hosted by www.irishdiaspora.net, the site for Irish and other diaspora studies owned by Dr Patrick O’Sullivan (University of Bradford). Responsibility for its content, however, remains with the editorial team of THE OSCHOLARS. We cannot yet see how this will develop but the main thrust of Shavings will continue as before to explore the world of Shaw during the lifetime of Wilde, although clearly we will not turn our backs on such later Shaw material as presents itself. Contributions and ideas from readers will be welcome. That said, we are here only to complement the excellent work done on Shaw elsewhere, notably by the Shaw associations and their publications, and these will be given their due measure in our columns.
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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 |
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2. Shawlines a. Conferences b. Shaw at 150 c. Lectures d. Publications e. The Shrines f. Exhibition + Review by Julie Ann Stevens g. 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.
For
2006 at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, has now closed. 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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Performance |
Show Dates
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Location |
Show Times |
Information |
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Village Wooing* |
February
4, 2007 |
2:
00 p.m. |
Open
to the Public |
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Love Scenes |
February
6, 2007 |
7:
00 p.m. |
Open
to the Public |
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Shaw vs. Shakespeare: |
February
10, 2007 |
3:30pm |
Open
to the Public |
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Love Scenes* |
February
11, 2007 |
2:
00 p.m. |
Open
to the Public |
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Love Scenes* |
February
11, 2007 |
2:
00 p.m. |
Open
to the Public |
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Love Scenes* |
February
14, 2007 |
7:
00 p.m. |
Open
to the Public |
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Village Wooing* |
February
15, 2007 |
7:
00 p.m. |
Open
to the Public |
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Village Wooing* |
February
18, 2007 |
2:
00 p.m. |
Open
to the Public |
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Love Scenes |
February
26, 2007 |
1:
00 p.m. |
Private
Event |
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Love Scenes* |
February
28, 2007 |
7:
00 p.m. |
Open
to the Public |
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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
Directed by Chris Coleman, this will be played at Portland Center Stage (Gerding Theater), 128 NW Eleventh Avenue, Portland, Oregon 9th January - 4th February 2007.
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.
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.
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.
The ISS at the Modern Language
Association Meeting, 27th to 30th
December 2006, Philadelphia.
In acknowledgment of Bernard
Shaw’s sesquicentennial, the International Shaw Society is sponsoring a special
session at the 2006 MLA December meeting that will explore Shaw's writings,
both dramatic and non-dramatic, in a contemporary context. Since Shaw
often figured himself as a prophet, in what ways did Shaw anticipate
twenty-first century approaches to drama, theater, performance, social reform, politics,
and critical and literary theory? How
does Shaw's theatrical-critical project still speak to us today? Approaches
grounded in either current events and mass culture (e.g., "Creative
Evolution," “Creationism,” and “Intelligent Design” in Kansas and Dover,
Pennsylvania) or contemporary (inter)disciplinary and theoretical discourses
(e.g., Back to Methuselah and the Post-Human) are encouraged. Other possibilities for areas of discussion
include stage practices and metadrama; gender roles, family issues, and
marriage; social class, poverty, and war; religion and “Science Studies;”
deconstruction, poststructuralism, and the death of theory; depth psychology;
narrative, history, literary/dramatic historiography, and periodization; film,
video, television, hypertext, and other New Media, etc.
MLA members can discover how
to register for the 2006 MLA convention by going to http://www.mla.org/convention.
An ISS-Sponsored
Special Session on ‘Shaw as Playwright’
at The 31st Annual Comparative Drama Conference, 29th, 30th & 31st March 2007.
Conference
Location: Marina Del Rey (Los Angeles), California. Conference hotel to be determined.
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
(when it’s up in July). 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: