SHAW SYMPOSIUM 2023
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Schedule of events

Updated 1 May 2023

Daily schedule

Friday, July 21 (Rehearsal Hall 3, Festival Theatre)
  
11:30am                     VILLAGE WOOING (Royal George Theatre – running time 60 minutes)
 
12:30pm                    Continue the Conversation (Gallery Space – optional)
 
5pm                             Registration and Wine and Cheese Reception (Rehearsal Hall 3)
 
5:45-6:30pm             Keynote Address: David Staller (via Zoom) (Rehearsal Hall 3)
                                
6:30-7:45pm             Dinner on your own
 
8:00pm                     THE APPLE CART (Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre)

 
Saturday, July 22 (Rehearsal Hall 3)
 
9-9:30am                    Refreshments

 
9:30-10:45am               Session One: Panel: Village Wooing

Vishnu Patil, “Love as a Political Category in Shaw’s Village Wooing and Getting Married”

D. A. Hadfield, “I Didn’t Say I Do: A Very Village Wooing”

Yulia Skalnaya, “Voyage, Marriage, Death and Rebirth in the Shavian Epic of an Intelligent Man” 


10:45am                        Break
 
11:00am-12:15pm        Session Two: Mrs Shaw Herself performance (Zoom)
 
12:15pm                         Lunch on your own

 
1:30-3pm                       Session Three: Panel: Shaw and Contemporaries: Synge, Coward, Topolski

Christopher Wixson, “Designs for Living: Bernard Shaw and Noël Coward"

John McInerney, "Shaw and Coward: A Comparison"

Justine Zapin: “Playboy, Blanco, and Irish Social Realism”

Sharon Klassen, “Bernard Shaw and Feliks Topolski: Creating the Constable Geneva” 


3-3:30pm                      Break
 
3:30-5pm                      Session Four: performance of The Music Cure, an opera by Philip Hagemann
                                      (Rehearsal Hall 3)

5 pm.                       
      Dinner on your own

 
 
8:00pm                         PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD (Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre)

 
 
Sunday, July 23  (Rehearsal Hall 3)
 
9-9:30am                       Shaw Festival and ISS Welcomes; Morning Refreshments
                                         Justine Zapin, R. F. Dietrich Scholarship research presentation
 
9:30-10:30am:               Session Five: Late Shaw


Brigitte Bogar, “A Double Adaptation: On the Razzle by Tom Stoppard and Robin Orr”

Tae-Yong Eom, “The Apple Cart & On the Rocks: Is Bernard Shaw a Supporter of Reformative Dictatorship?”

Kay Li, “ChatGPT as a Disruptive Technology or a Blessing in Disguise: A Case Study on The Apple Cart” 

10:30am                        Break
 
11am                              Chat with Actors from Playboy of the Western World
 
12pm                             Picnic Lunches
 
1:30pm                          Session Six: President’s Address (brief remarks)
                   
2:30pm                         Business Meeting of the International Shaw Society
 
30 minutes after end of meeting      President’s reception (address will be given on-site)

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Bios

Brigitte Bogar

Tae-Yong Eom

D. A. Hadfield

Sharon Klassen

Kay Li

Vishnu Patil

Yulia Skalnaya

David Staller

Christopher Wixson

​Justine Zapin

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