Shaw Festival
2012
His Girl Friday
Festival Theatre June 10 – October 5
Adapted by JOHN GUARE
from “The Front Page” by BEN HECHT and CHARLES MACARTHUR
and the Columbia Pictures film “His Girl Friday”
Directed by JIM MEZON
“They’re newspaper men. They can’t help themselves. The Lord made them that way. ”
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Tough-talking, wise-cracking reporter Hildy Johnson’s had enough of the journalism game. But her former editor (and ex-husband) can’t let his gal go. So he lures her back with the breaking story of the year – some poor dope lost his job and is waiting to swing, all because the mayor needs to be re-elected. A screwball comedy with a strong dash of politics and corruption. |
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Misalliance
Royal George Theatre April 19 – October 27
By BERNARD SHAW
Directed by EDA HOLMES
“Oh home! parents! family! duty! How I loathe them! How I’d like to see them all blown to bits!”
Hypatia is a bored heiress to an underwear fortune, trapped in an unhappy engagement. But then a plane crashes into the conservatory, bringing a handsome man, a female daredevil and all kinds of new ideas to shake up the quiet weekend in the country. Who will wind up with whom? And which alliance will be a hit – or a miss?
French Without Tears
Royal George Theatre May 11 – September 15
By TERENCE RATTIGAN
Directed by KATE LYNCH
“Is she learning French too?
No, she just stops us from learning it.”
L’amour en français! In a villa on the west coast of France, young men – some aspiring to be diplomats, some just doing it to please their parents – come to work on their French language skills. But in between lessons, their main occupation is with girls. One girl in particular, Diana Lake, who has a lot of joie de vivre and can’t seem to help making all the men fall for her. With an epic run of over a thousand performances in the 1930s – the play is credited with establishing the name of this major British playwright
Come Back, Little Sheba
Royal George Theatre June 28 – October 19
By WILLIAM INGE
Directed by JACKIE MAXWELL
“If you can’t forget the past, you stay in it and never get out.”
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Lola was the high school ‘it’ girl who had to marry young. Twenty years later, she and Doc don’t have the life they had hoped for in their cluttered, Midwestern home, where an aura of disappointment and tension pervades. When they take in a pretty young woman as a boarder, their lives are forever changed as they must finally confront both their past and their future. We’ve presented Inge’s plays Picnic and Bus Stop to great acclaim, so it seems only natural that we now present the play which launched his career.
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A Man and Some Women
Court House Theatre April 27 – September 22
By GITHA SOWERBY
Directed by ALISA PALMER
“I’ve kept you because you’re women. I’ve held my tongue because you’re women. I bully you? You’re the bullies.”
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Richard Shannon longs to leave his business to take up a post as a scientific advisor in Brazil. But he feels duty-bound to remain and support his wife and two unmarried sisters. A bold portrayal of family dynamics from the dazzling writer of The Stepmother, who asks, what becomes of a woman who can’t earn her own living?
The MillionairessCourt House Theatre June 20 – October 6
By BERNARD SHAW
Directed by BLAIR WILLIAMS
“I am the most interesting woman in England.”
The richest woman in England made just one promise to her father – to only marry a man who could turn 150 pounds into 50,000 in six months. But she falls for an Egyptian doctor who made a promise to his mother – to only marry a woman who, beginning with 35 pence, can support herself for six months. Now what?
Hedda GablerCourt House Theatre July 25 – September 29
By HENRIK IBSEN Directed by MARTHA HENRY
“These things come over me, just like that, suddenly. And I can’t hold back.”
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