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2009 SEASON - List of all the shows in the 2009 Season of The Shaw Festival.
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    • Brief Encounters - Repressed love after a chance meeting at a train station; flaming passion from a single dance across the floor; mistaken identity following a passing holiday acquaintance – three different stories inspired by three brief moments in time. Each is a miniature delight only possible from the pen of Coward.
    • Ways of the Heart - From love and heartbreak to farce via drama, this threesome demonstrates the full range of Coward’s genius. In The Astonished Heart, a patient’s obsessive love of her psychiatrist provokes disturbing results. In Family Album, after their father’s funeral, when the family gathers and the wine appears, family truths are finally revealed. And in Ways and Means, when a couple’s luck seems to have run out, they find it again with style and grace on the French Riviera.
    • A Moon for the Misbegotten - A bittersweet love story set in a dilapidated house in Connecticut where Josie Hogan and her father live off the land and struggle to survive. When the landlord, James Tyrone Jr returns, their livelihood, and Josie’s heart, is threatened. Under a moonlit sky, in spite of her reputation and his bitter charm, Josie and James tumble into a conversation and discover the truth about each other in what becomes a lyrical tale of hope and forgiveness.
    • Albertine in Five Times - What would you say to your younger self if you had the chance? What if you met yourself 10, 20, 30 years in the future? Michel Tremblay takes his favourite character and puts her on stage with five versions of herself to talk to – five Albertines from ages 30 to 70. And she loves to talk. About her life, her marriage and her children with passion, honesty and humour. We present a new translation of this Canadian classic.
    • Play, Orchestra, Play - In Red Peppers, the backstage lives of a down-at-heel singing and dancing comedy act are almost as entertaining as their onstage routines. In Fumed Oak, Henry Gow has simply had enough – of his job, his family and his life – and tonight he’s finally going to make his move. In Shadow Play, music and fantasy combine in a story about a couple falling in and out of love – or are they? As one character opines, it would be so much easier, wouldn’t it, if we had music when things go wrong? It certainly is in these tuneful delights containing some of Coward’s most celebrated songs.
    • Sunday in the Park with George - Another award-winning musical from Stephen Sondheim, a compelling story about love, art and inspiration. Spend Sundays in the park with the French impressionist painter Georges Seurat as he creates his masterpiece, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Hear from the figures in the painting about their lives and loves – especially Dot, the woman with the umbrella and Georges’ mistress and muse. A hundred years later, see his great-grandson, another artist, learn from the ghosts of the past.
    • In Good King Charles's Days - A philosopher, a religious leader, an artist, an actress and a King meet at Sir Isaac Newton’s house. The set-up for a joke? No, it’s Shaw’s Restoration comedy, where everyone from George Fox, the founder of the Quakers, to Sir Godfrey Kneller the painter and, of course, King Charles II appear. They debate everything – from geometry to art to love potions – with occasional interruptions from three of Charles’s liveliest mistresses.
    • Star Chamber - A committee of actors meets to discuss the refurbishment of Garrick Haven, a home for retired thespians. While the stage manager dutifully arrives on time, the rest of the group make their entrances more dramatically and the agenda is quickly forgotten as it’s clear that everyone would really rather talk about themselves. With duelling divas, well-loved stories of past glories and the appearance of a Great Dane, the meeting quickly falls into comic chaos. The final jewel in the Tonight at 8:30 crown.
    • The Entertainer - A brilliant exposé of 1950s postwar England seen through the eyes of fading music hall performer, Archie Rice. As we veer from gin-soaked family arguments to Archie’s increasingly desperate onstage turns, an England on a precipice is revealed, a nation unable to find its place in what is clearly a new world.
    • Born Yesterday - When a nouveau riche garbage king arrives in Washington, he decides his very blonde girlfriend needs an education. But he gets more than he bargained for as she and her tutor prove that knowledge is power, not to mention very attractive! This classic comedy opened on Broadway in 1946 and still holds the record for the longest run at the Lyceum Theatre.
    • The Devil's Disciple - It’s the height of the American Revolution and Dick Dudgeon – the black sheep son – is known as the Devil’s Disciple. When he is mistaken for a crusading minister and imprisoned by English forces, the question becomes, who is really the saint and who is the sinner? A comedy, an adventure and a love story, its first production in 1897 was so successful that Shaw was able to quit his day job as a critic.
    • Noël Coward's Tonight at 8:30 - Noël Coward is renowned for his full-length plays The Vortex, Hay Fever, Easy Virtue, Blithe Spirit, Present Laughter, Cavalcade, Private Lives and Design For Living (all of which have been produced by The Shaw). His ambitious Tonight At 8:30, which he wrote and starred in with his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, was originally written to be performed in combinations of three plays for a different line-up each night.

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