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News, The News Herald, The Morning Journal<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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International Association of Theatre Critics<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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class=normal align=center><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: windowtext; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">“I
often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></I></P>
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Bernard Shaw</SPAN></EM><SPAN
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">Since
its inception in 1962, the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake in Ontario,
Canada has offered professional productions of the provocative plays of
</SPAN><SPAN
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socialist, cantankerous arts critic and prolific writer </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">Bernard
Shaw.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; COLOR: #222222; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">Shaw
wrote many popular plays between his one-act “Un Petit Drame” in 1884 and his
final work, “Farfetched Fables,” in 1950, and the Shaw Festival rotates through
most of them.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">It
also produces </SPAN><SPAN
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by Shaw contemporaries and </SPAN><SPAN
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works of </SPAN><SPAN
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Shavians – those who </SPAN><SPAN
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Shaw’s incendiary exploration of society, love of language and celebration of
humanity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-fareast-font-family: Arial">This season,
ten plays are being produced in repertory under artistic director Jackie
Maxwell’s leadership.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They range
from Shaw’s “Pygmalion” and his lesser known “You Never Can Tell,” to the
classic Neil Simon musical “Sweet Charity,” </SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">Moss Hart’s backstage comedy “Light Up the Sky,” and
Ibsen’s rarely-produced romantic drama “The Lady From the
Sea.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">To learn more
about the shows at Shaw, the Cleveland Jewish News caught up with Jackie Maxwell
in between her meetings with the designers and directors of the four plays that
open shortly, rehearsals with the cast and creative team of the two plays she is
directing, and planning sessions for next year’s
festival.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">For more of this
interview, go to:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><A
href=""><FONT color=#0000ff size=3
face="Times New Roman">http://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/columnists/bob_abelman/</FONT></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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