WordStage
Literary Concerts opens its 2016-17 Season with George Bernard
Shaw’s How He Lied to Her Husband Friday,
September 30, 2016 at 7:30 PM
Shaw stated that, “Nothing in the theatre is staler than
the situation of husband, wife and lover, or the fun of knockabout farce.
I have taken both, and got an original play out of them, as anybody else can if
only he will look about him for his material instead of
plagiarizing Othello and the thousand plays that have proceeded on
Othello’s romantic assumptions and false point of honor.” Shaw wrote this one act comedy of manners and mores of
British society over a period of four days while he
was vacationing in Scotland in 1904. In its preface he described
it as “a sample of what can be done with even the most hackneyed stage
framework by filling it in with an observed touch of actual humanity instead of
with doctrinaire romanticism.” The play has often been interpreted as a kind of
satirical commentary on Shaw’s own highly successful earlier play Candida (which
one of the characters gets tickets to see).
Shaw’s sparkling wit will be highlighted with the music of
his favorite composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Cast: Bryan Ritchey – Deborah Magid – Tim
Tavcar – Patrick Wickliffe, piano
The performance is part of our Wright Chapel Series. The Chapel is within the Lakewood
Presbyterian Church – 14502 Detroit Ave. at Marlowe in Downtown Lakewood.
Tickets: There is a suggested donation of $10.00 for all
WordStage Wright Chapel events – but we are maintaining our “Pay What You Can”
policy from past seasons in order to make our performances available to all who
are interested in seeing them.
For more information, please visit our web site at www.wordstageoh or
call 216-712-6926.