Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...text of the two-act play was adapted by Jerome Kilty '49 from the four decades of correspondence between Shaw and Mrs. Campbell, the celebrated British actress (nee Beatrice Stella Tanner). Many of their letters were published five years ago, but much of the material for this play has never been published, having been presented to Kilty by a friend who smuggled it out of France in 1940 at the behest of Mrs. Campbell, who was then on her deathbed and wanted the letters preserved...
Kilty has done a brilliantly skillful job of fashioning this play. Actually the letters are so written that they lend themselves very well to conversational give-and-take. And Kilty has devised fitting links to fill the gaps. Act I deals with letters from 1899 to the first World War, and Act II with those from...
...resulting play allows us to see beneath the surface of Shaw and the reigning queen of the Victorian and Edwardian stage for whom he wrote many of his great roles. And in it other famous personages, both in and outside the theatre, flow...
...merely notorious pamphleteer. Act I contains the story of Shaw's plea to Mrs. Campbell to take the role of Liza in Pygmalion, her frightful automobile accident (which she thought had ended her career), and the final triumph of the opening night. In this act, Kilty turned his play into a play about a play and slipped in and out of actual rehearsals of scenes from Pygmalion...
Shaw's proverbial wit is abundantly manifest. At one point the self-styled "greatest living master of letters" exclaims, "All I ask is to have my own way in everything." And after an ovation at a play, he said, "My impulse was to rise and bless them. I often feel like the Pope...