Word: shaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Maude Royden Shaw, 79, first woman preacher in London (because Anglican precedent did not allow women clerics, she became an assistant minister at the nonconformist City Temple in 1917), Oxford-educated suffragette, onetime pacifist (she renounced pacifism as "negative" at the outbreak of World War II) who shocked American bluenoses by smoking cigarettes on a preaching tour in 1928, married (1944) the Rev. George W. H. Shaw after a 43-year, triangular love affair described in her book, A Threefold Cord; in London...
...what of the lion? He is human and wonderful as Shaw wished him, with an incredible collection of vocal grunts, growls, and contortions; he dances well, also. He is played by William Ball...
...show very much belongs to Kilty; not only for his direction, but also for his portrayal of Shaw in the interpolated scene at the beginning of the play, and his worldly, bored Caesar, who suddenly comes to life when nuzzled by the lion. But it is a fortunate director who has much talent to work with. Each of the principals clearly deserves mention and praise for his individual delineations as Kilty does for the fine group work...
When played well and clearly conceived by director and actors there is nothing in the modern repertory as enjoyable as Shavian comedy. Androcles and the Lion is Shaw near the top of his form; the performance at Wellesley is the Group 20 players at the top of their form...
This pioneering work, which profoundly influenced Bernard Shaw's Getting Married and Candida, is not a great one. There is virtually no action; and the characters are on the whole rather two-dimensional. The entrances and exits are handled somewhat awkwardly; and the play's focus is not consistently clear. Ibsen had not yet reached that lofty fin-de-siecle peak that only Strindberg would eventually share with him. Nevertheless, no other play of Ibsen has so much sparkle and wit as Love's Comedy...