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• January 22, 2007 @ 7PM
• CANDIDA
• February 19, 2007 @ 7PM
• THE MUSIC CURE &
  INTERLUDE at the PLAYHOUSE
• March 19, 2007 @ 7PM
• DOCTOR'S DILEMMA
• April 23, 2007 @ 7PM
• ANDROCLES AND THE LION
• May 21, 2007 @ 7PM
• ADMIRABLE BASHVILLE
• June 18, 2007 @ 7PM
• VILLAGE WOOING &
  HOW HE LIED TO HER HUSBAND
• July 23, 2007 @ 7PM
• THE MILLIONAIRESS
• September 17, 2007 @ 7PM
• MAN AND SUPERMAN
• October 22, 2007 @ 7PM
• PRESS CUTTINGS &
  PASSION, POISON and PETRIFACTION
• November 19, 2007 @ 7PM
• WIDOWERS HOUSES
• December 17, 2007 @ 7PM
• PYGMALION

The Admirable Bashville
Or Constancy Unrewarded

(Being the Novel of ‘Cashel Byron’s Profession’ done into a stage play in Blank Verse.)
Written in 1901 and first performed the following year.

First Tableau:
Scene 1: A Glade In Wilstoken Park
Scene 2: London. A room in Lydia’s House
Scene 3. The Agricultural Hall, Islington.

Second Tableau:
Scene 1: Wilstoken. A room in the Warren Lodge.

The period of the play is the spring and summer of 1881.

Cast
Lydia—Lacey Kohl
Cashel Byron—Marc Kudisch
Mellish—Louis Zorich
Lucian—James Ludwig
Bashville—Daniel Jenkins
Cetewayo—Kevin Joseph
Paradise—Graham Rowat
Lord Worthington—Robert Ian Mackenzie
A Policeman—George S. Irving
Adelaide Gisborne—Charlotte Moore
Narrator- Patricia Conolly
Host—Michael Riedel

Synopsis
This play is, in fact, based upon Shaw's own highly successful novel, Cashel Byron's Profession. The novel was written in 1882 and after rejection by several publishers it was published in serialized form in a magazine. Shaw wrote five novels early in his career and then moved on to pursue drama criticism and eventually playwriting.

The novel follows Cashel Byron, a world champion prizefighter, as he tries to woo wealthy aristocrat Lydia Carew without revealing his illegal profession. Meanwhile, she also has a secret admirer in her formidable footman, Bashville. Brains vs brawn. The play follows much the same path. The novelty of this particular play is that Shaw wrote it as a parody of Shakespeare. The entire play is, in fact, written in blank verse. As the characters are all ‘contemporary’ this makes for a unique comic lunacy in Shaw’s canon.
As Admirable Bashville is a very short play, the evening will include readings from some of Shaw’s letter and excerpts from prefaces.

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