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Project Shaw 2010

• March 17
• GTG St. Patrick's Day Gala
• March 22
• The Doctor's Dilemma
• April 19
• John Bull's Other Island
• May 24
• Major Barbara
• June 21
• Village Wooing
• July 19
• Man And Superman
• September 27
• Candida
• October 25
• Captain Brassbound's Conversion
• November 22
• How He Lied to Her Husband
• December 20
• Heartbreak House

Previously in 2010

• January 25
• Arms And The Man
• February 15
• The Philanderer

 

Monday, June 15th @ 7pm

Two completely unexpected
One-Act Comedies
from Shaw

THE SIX OF CALAIS:
A Medieval War Story
By George Bernard Shaw, 1934

Period–A.D. 4th August 1347.
Scene–Before the Walls of Calais on the Last Day of the Siege. Camp of King Edward III.

The legendary story of how an extremely pregnant queen helped save the town of Calais from utter devastation.

Narrator — Ms. Daphne Rubin-Vega
The Black Prince — Mr. Simon Kendall
Edward III — Mr. Victor Slezak
Queen Philippa — Mr. Donna Lynne Champlin
Eustache de St. Pierre — Mr. James Prendergast
Piers de Rosty — Mr. Josh Grisetti

An almost true historical saga! The profoundly pregnant queen of Edward III does her bit for saving the war-besieged Calais.

THE SIMPLETON OF THE UNEXPECTED ISLES
A Play in a Prologue and Two Acts
(A Vision of Judgment)
By George Bernard Shaw, 1934

Prologue:
Scene 1: The Emigration Office at a Tropical Port in the British Empire

Scene 2: A Grassy Cliff-top overhanging the Sea.

Scene 3: A Shelf of Rock halfway down the Cliff

ACT I & II: The Lawn of a Stately House on the North Coast of a Tropical Island

Time: We Begin in The Present (1934) and move into the future.

Narrator — Mr. David Cote
Hugo Hyering — Mr. Victor Slezak
Wilks — Mr. Simon Kendall
Hannah — Ms. Donna Lynne Champlin
Pra, a Priest — Mr. John Bolton
Prola, a Priestess — Ms. Daphne Rubin-Vega
Lady Farwaters — Ms. Nora Chester
Sir Charles Farwaters — Mr. James Prendergast
Phosphor Hammingtap — Mr. Josh Grisetti
Janga — Mr. Nathaniel Shaw
Kanchin — Mr. Jack Berenholtz
Maya — Ms. Georgia Warner
Vashti — Ms. Lucy Banks Sheftall
The Angel — Mr. Simon Kendall

Shaw's epic-sized one-hour comedy about an experiment in living: The world is in an uproar over three couples, four children, one reformed pirate who is secretly a clergyman, and an angel.

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16 Gramercy Park South
(20th Street east of Park Av)

Guest host: David Cote of TIME OUT NY
Produced and directed by David Staller

 

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