Lawrence Switzky Interviews Keynote Speaker Kimberley Rampersad
Leonard Conolly [Trent University]
on "A Severed Head, Three Flirtations with American Presidents, a Castrated Preface, and Other Curious Facts about Arnold Daly’s World Premiere of How He Lied to Her Husband"
Bob Gaines [Auburn University, Montgomery] “What Hath Shaw Wrought, or Dimensions of
Marriage in O’Flaherty V.C., How He Lied to Her Husband, and The Man of Destiny”
John McInerney [University of Scranton]
“Shaw’s Man of Destiny and Fintan O’Toole’s Rules”
Brigitte Bogar (York University)
“The
Sound of War in Shaw’s O’Flaherty V.C.”
Barbara Inglese [Independent Scholar]
“The Fascination of Triangles”
Isabel Stowell-Kaplan [University of Toronto]
“Theatrical Posture, Theatrical Style: Fluidity of Body and Mind in Widowers’ Houses”
Kay Li [York
University] “Ding Xi Lin’s Chinese Translation of The Man of Destiny: Reading Shaw through IBM Artificial
Intelligence
Tony Stafford [University of Texas, El Paso] “Henry Higgins: A Diagnosis”
Michael O’Hara [Sursa Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts, Ball
State University; President of the International Shaw Society]
Yulia Skalnaya [Lomonosov Moscow State University]
“The Arch Fabler of the Twentieth Century:
Myth, Legend, and Fairy Tale in Shaw’s plays”
Jesse Hellman [Independent Scholar]
“Marianne Caton
Patterson and Those Wellesley Brothers: A Surprising Maryland Reference in
Shaw’s Most Famous Play”
Lawrence Switzky [U. of Toronto]
Jennifer Buckley [University of Iowa]
"’The English Don’t Want Art’: Bernard Shaw, Joan Littlewood, and the Theatre Workshop"
Veronika Ambros: (University of Toronto), “Shaw’s Reception of Karel Čapek and Karel Čapek’s
Reception of Shaw”
Shaw Festival Company Member Ben Sanders (Dennis O’Flaherty in O’Flaherty V.C.)
Featured Event: Keith Lowe (winner of the Boylston Elocution
Prizes, 1959 and 1960), performance of selections from Man and Superman
Featured Event: Post-performance discussion of O’Flaherty V.C. with Shaw Festival
Company Members Patrick McManus (General Sir Pearce Madigan in O’Flaherty V.C.) and
Ben Sanders (Dennis O’Flaherty in O’Flaherty
V.C.)
Featured Event: Shaw Festival Company Member Patrick Galligan
leads a rehearsal workshop, using a scene from Arms and the Man
Featured Event: “Shaw on
Shakespeare”: Featuring Shaw’s critical
and laudatory views on the Bard and a dramatic rendering of Shaw’s Sketch “ A
Dressing Room Secret”
Arranged, Directed, and
Narrated by John McInerney.
Featuring:
Ellen Dolgin, Bob
Gaines, Dorothy Hadfield, Sharon Klassen, Michael O’Hara, and Michel Pharand
Sharon Klassen Voicing
Shaw’s laudatory view of Shakespeare
&
Dorothy Hadfield Voicing Shaw’s critical view of Shakespeare
Michael O’Hara as the
Bust of Shakespeare
Michel Pharand as the
actor playing Iago and Bob Gaines as the Costumer
Ellen Dolgin as the
actress playing Lady Macbeth
David Staller, Ellen
Dolgin, Martin Meisel (New York City 2018)
Christa Zorn, Mary Christian, Ellen Dolgin, and Brigitte Bogar
at the 2018 Comparative Drama Conference 2018
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