Marla McLean as Mrs. George Collins and Ben Sanders as St. John Hotchkiss in Getting Married (2019). Photo by Emily Cooper.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15
4-4:45pm Business Meeting of the International Shaw Society (John Drope Hall, Court House Theatre, 3rd Floor)
4:45-5:30pm Registration and Wine and Cheese Reception (John Drope Hall, Court House Theatre, 3rd floor)
5:30-6:15pm Keynote Address: Tanja Jacobs (Shaw Festival Ensemble member and director) (Court House Theatre)
6:15-7:45pm Dinner on your own
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16
9-9:30am Refreshments (Rehearsal Hall 3, Festival Theatre)
9:30-10:45am Session One: Panel 1
Yulia Andreevna Skalnaya, “‘To Sleep, Perchance to Dream…’: Dream Realm in Shaw’s Dramas”
John McInerny, “The Disconnect between the Comic Plot and Juvenalian Satire in Man and Superman”
Lisa Robertson, “‘Vanitas Vanitatum’: Revolutionary Individualism in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman and Margaret Harkness’s George Eastmont, Wanderer”
R. F. Dietrich, “Man and Roboman, or, The Secret Co-Author of Man and Superman"
10:45am Break
11:00-11:45 am Session Two: Teaching Shaw – Roundtable
11:45am-12pm Kay, Li, Shaw Bot demonstration
12pm Lunch break (on your own); Shaw Bot testing for interested participants
1:30-3pm Session Three
Justine Zapin, “Ghosts, Part 2, or Getting Married”
Vishnu W. Patil, “Reality of the Virtual in Getting Married”
Sharon Klassen, “Should This Couple Get Married?”
3-3:30pm Break
3:30-4:30pm Session Four
Performance pedagogy workshop with Graeme Somerville (Shaw Festival Ensemble Member)
4:30pm Concluding Remarks
8:00pm GETTING MARRIED (Royal George Theatre)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17
9-9:30am Shaw Festival and ISS Welcomes; Morning Refreshments (Rehearsal Hall 3, Festival Theatre)
9:30-10:30am Session Five: Panel 3
Barbara Inglese, “Italian and French Opera Allusions in Arms and the Man, Major Barbara, and Man and Superman”
Hisashi Morikawa, “Man and Superman: First Part of the Shavian RingCycle”
Brigitte Bogar, “The Sound of Music in Man and Superman”
11am MAN AND SUPERMAN – Part One (Festival Theatre)
1-2pm Picnic Lunches (Rehearsal Hall 3)
2:30pm MAN AND SUPERMAN – Part Two (Festival Theatre)
5pm Post-show discussion (Festival Library)
6pm President’s reception (215 Ricardo St., Suite 203)
4-4:45pm Business Meeting of the International Shaw Society (John Drope Hall, Court House Theatre, 3rd Floor)
4:45-5:30pm Registration and Wine and Cheese Reception (John Drope Hall, Court House Theatre, 3rd floor)
5:30-6:15pm Keynote Address: Tanja Jacobs (Shaw Festival Ensemble member and director) (Court House Theatre)
6:15-7:45pm Dinner on your own
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16
9-9:30am Refreshments (Rehearsal Hall 3, Festival Theatre)
9:30-10:45am Session One: Panel 1
Yulia Andreevna Skalnaya, “‘To Sleep, Perchance to Dream…’: Dream Realm in Shaw’s Dramas”
John McInerny, “The Disconnect between the Comic Plot and Juvenalian Satire in Man and Superman”
Lisa Robertson, “‘Vanitas Vanitatum’: Revolutionary Individualism in George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman and Margaret Harkness’s George Eastmont, Wanderer”
R. F. Dietrich, “Man and Roboman, or, The Secret Co-Author of Man and Superman"
10:45am Break
11:00-11:45 am Session Two: Teaching Shaw – Roundtable
11:45am-12pm Kay, Li, Shaw Bot demonstration
12pm Lunch break (on your own); Shaw Bot testing for interested participants
1:30-3pm Session Three
Justine Zapin, “Ghosts, Part 2, or Getting Married”
Vishnu W. Patil, “Reality of the Virtual in Getting Married”
Sharon Klassen, “Should This Couple Get Married?”
3-3:30pm Break
3:30-4:30pm Session Four
Performance pedagogy workshop with Graeme Somerville (Shaw Festival Ensemble Member)
4:30pm Concluding Remarks
8:00pm GETTING MARRIED (Royal George Theatre)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17
9-9:30am Shaw Festival and ISS Welcomes; Morning Refreshments (Rehearsal Hall 3, Festival Theatre)
9:30-10:30am Session Five: Panel 3
Barbara Inglese, “Italian and French Opera Allusions in Arms and the Man, Major Barbara, and Man and Superman”
Hisashi Morikawa, “Man and Superman: First Part of the Shavian RingCycle”
Brigitte Bogar, “The Sound of Music in Man and Superman”
11am MAN AND SUPERMAN – Part One (Festival Theatre)
1-2pm Picnic Lunches (Rehearsal Hall 3)
2:30pm MAN AND SUPERMAN – Part Two (Festival Theatre)
5pm Post-show discussion (Festival Library)
6pm President’s reception (215 Ricardo St., Suite 203)
Kristopher Bowman in Dancing at Lughnasa (2017). Photo by Christopher Wahl.