Staging Shaw: An Interview with Colin Murphy

Judging Shaw was staged by ANU Productions in collaboration with playwright Colin Murphy as a site-specific promenade performance in the Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Dublin. It took place on the inaugural Shaw Day, 2 November 2017. The performance piece took its inspiration from Fintan O'Toole's biography of George Bernard Shaw, also called Judging Shaw. In this interview, Colin Murphy, playwright, journalist, and author of the performance script, discusses writing, staging, and indeed judging Shaw with Dr. Tricia O'Beirne. Additionally, an excerpt from Murphy's playscript "Judging Shaw: Sketches on the Life (and Afterlife) of George Bernard Shaw" to mark Shaw Day 2017 is included in this journal.