2008 SEASON -
List of all the shows in the 2008 Season of The Shaw Festival.
- Calendar - Schedule of all the shows.
- Playbill - List
of all the shows in the 2007 Season of The Shaw Festival.
- An Inspector Calls - The Birling Family is enjoying a quiet celebration when
a knock at the door changes their lives. An inspector enters,
questioning each of them about their involvement in a
mysterious death. Skeletons clatter out of the closet in
this complex mystery with a twist.
- Wonderful Town - A musical adventure about being young and pursuing a dream,
based on the delightful novel and movie My Sister Eileen. Two
sisters arrive in New York to find fame, fortune and love. With
the help of some colourful characters from Greenwich Village,
they find even more than they bargained for.
- Mrs Warren's Profession - Mrs Kitty Warren has worked hard to provide for her
daughter, but when Vivie at last learns the truth about
her mother’s profession, the stage is set for a battle
royal between mother and daughter about love, sex,
money and morality. It’s Shaw at his wicked best.Greenwich Village,
they find even more than they bargained for.
- The Stepmother - The riveting tale of a stepmother who cares deeply for her daughters and a husband who cares more about money
than his home and family. An undiscovered theatrical gem
from the author of Rutherford and Son and the North American
premiere of a play written in 1924.
- A Little Night Music - Three mismatched couples gather for a weekend in
the country under the midnight sun. Loves are lost and
found, longed for and forgotten, all set to some of musical
theatre’s most enduring songs - including the classic
“Send in the Clowns”.
- Bell Moral: A Natural History - On the Scottish coast, in an ancestral home called
Belle Moral, young Pearl has a curious and scientific
nature - and an ear in a jar. Some in the family wish
she would let sleeping dogs lie. A gothic comedy
with a hint of “whodunnit”.
- Getting Married - Marriage à la Shaw! The bishop’s daughter is getting
married today. Or she was until she and her groom begin
to have their doubts. Soon the whole household has an
opinion to share in this witty and provocative look at
the institution of marriage.
- The Little Foxes - Family and money - a lethal combination. When
the Hubbard siblings decide to invest in a cotton mill,
the struggle for the biggest slice of the pie begins.
The treachery of these Southern foxes is a timeless
story about the power of greed.
- After the Dance - It’s 1938 and the generation of Bright Young Things
are still carrying on like it’s the Roaring Twenties. But
David and his wife Joan are beginning to look dangerously
frivolous as the threat of another war looms. What will
become of them after the party is over?
- The President - The clock starts ticking for a powerful bank president
when the young heiress under his care announces her
secret marriage to a taxi driver. With her parents set
to arrive in less than an hour, can this CEO transform
the cabbie into an ideal son-in-law?
- Follies: In Concert - The once-glorious Weissman Theatre is about to be demolished, but for one last time showgirls from 40 years ago reunite and relive lost memories.
August 29, September 12, September 27 and October 4 - 8pm
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