SHOWS

Bernard Shaw: Plays Unpleasant

Presented by ShawChicago

Thursday, May 07
6:00 PM — 8:00 PM
Claudia Cassidy Theater
FREE, Reservations Encouraged

Performing scenes from George Bernard Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses, ShawChicago looks at how Shaw fashioned a new kind of theater out of the conventions of Victorian melodrama.  Following the scenes, Professor Joel Kaplan will speak about Shaw as a socially-conscious playwright. Kaplan, former head of the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham, UK is a freelance theater historian, author and consultant to the BBC and London’s Royal National Theater’.

Presented in collaboration with the Birmingham Committee of Chicago Sister Cities
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