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Bernard Shaw: Plays Unpleasant
On Thursday, May 7 DCA Theater hosted Bernard Shaw: Plays Unpleasant presented by the Birmingham Committee of The Chicago Sister Cities International Program.
Actor’s Equity Association actors Joseph Bowen, Kevin Fox, Jack Hickey and Kathy Logelin presented scenes from Widowers’ Houses under the direction of Robert Scogin, Artistic Director of ShawChicago. Widowers’ Houses (1892) was the first play by Nobel Prize in literature winner George Bernard Shaw to be staged. It is one of three plays Shaw published as Plays Unpleasant in 1898.
Following the scenes Professor Joel Kaplan (freelance writer and theatre historian based in Birmingham, U.K. and Florence, Italy) gave an insightful lecture on Shaw as a socially-conscious playwright.
Prof. Joel Kaplan lecturing. Pictured in slide:
(left) George Bernard Shaw as young radical
(right) William Archer, fellow critic, playwright and one-time collaborator
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While Prof. Kaplan was making many interesting, little known points about Shaw, one being that he was the only person to win both an Oscar AND a Nobel Prize, a quick google search reveals that Al Gore now shares that distinction with Shaw.