Notices

Request for Manuscripts: Future SHAW Volumes

SHAW 36.1 (to be published in June 2016) will be a theme volume devoted to “Shaw and Money,” with Nelson Ritschel (Massachusetts Maritime Academy) and Audrey McNamara (University College Dublin) as guest editors. It will explore Shaw’s views on and experiences with any aspect of money and finance, as well as their treatment in his plays and novels. Possible topics could include tainted money; inheritances and legacies, heirs and heiresses; earnings and wages; gambling, the loss of financial security; hoarding and squandering; lending and borrowing; philanthropy and charity; investments (good and bad); misuses or misappropriation of funds; disparities between rich and poor; “the crime of poverty”; business and banking; international finance (e.g., the economics of warfare); money and marriage; money and morality; money and politics; Shaw’s friendships with the very rich; Shaw’s financial transactions (e.g., with publishers and theater managers); Shaw’s earnings (royalties, investments, taxation); Shaw’s expenses (cars, cruises, etc.); Shaw as anonymous philanthropist; Shaw on money (in his prefaces and letters); Shaw and Fabian economics; Shaw and Karl Marx; Shaw and Maynard Keynes; Shaw and capitalism; etc. Submit abstracts (50 to 100 words) and papers to Nelson Ritschel at nritschel@maritime.edu or Audrey McNamara at neamh01@eircom.net.

SHAW 36.2 (to be published in December 2016) will include articles on general topics, as well as book reviews, the Checklist of Shaviana, Notices, and ISS information. Submit abstracts (50 to 100 words) or papers (with an abstract) to Michel Pharand at michelpharand@yahoo.com.

Other projected theme volumes of SHAW include “Shaw and the Classics,” “Shaw and Productions,” and “Shaw and Music.” For information about volumes or to suggest other theme volume titles, contact Michel Pharand at michelpharand@yahoo.com.

SHAW submissions should be sent as email attachments (in Microsoft Word). For matters of style, please refer to recent SHAW volumes.

The 54th Annual Shaw Festival, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, Canada

The 2015 Shaw Festival (8 April to 1 November 2015) featured Shaw’s Pygmalion (31 May to 24 October), directed by Peter Hinton, and You Never Can Tell (26 April to 25 October), directed by Jim Mezon. Also staged were Henrik Ibsen’s The Lady From the sea (adapted by Erin Shields), J. M. Barrie’s The Twelve-Pound Look, Moss Hart’s Light Up the Sky, Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls, Tony Kushner’s The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism with a Key to the Scriptures, the musical Sweet Charity (dir. Morris Panych), Peter and the Starcatcher by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson (adapted by Rick Elice), The Next Whisky Bar: A Kurt Weill Cabaret (created by Paul Sportelli and Jay Turvey), and the world premiere of Michel Marc Bouchard’s The Divine: A Play for Sarah Bernhardt, based on her visit to Quebec City in 1908.

The Festival’s 2016 season will include Mrs Warren’s Profession and a stage adaptation by Lisa Codrington of The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God.

For further information, write to Shaw Festival, Post Office Box 774, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, L0S 1J0; or call 1-800-511-shaw [7429] or 905-468-2153; or go to www.shawfest.com.

Shaw’s Corner

For information about summer performances of Shaw plays at Shaw’s Corner, Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, by Michael Friend Productions, contact Sue Morgan at Sue.Morgan@nationaltrust.org.uk. The plays staged in 2015, its 24th season, were Mrs Warren’s Profession (26 to 28 June) and John Bull’s Other Island (24 to 26 July).

ShawChicago Theater Company

The ShawChicago Theater Company celebrated its 21st season with productions of Don Juan in Hell (18 October to 10 November 2014), Major Barbara (25 April to 18 May 2015), and Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (7 February to 2 March 2015), all directed by Robert Scogin, Artistic Director. See www.shawchicago.org/.

Project Shaw

The Gingold Theatrical Group (GTG), headed by producer and director David Staller, continues to stage a concert reading of one Shaw play per month at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway...