SCHEDULE FOR “GBS BY THE BAY”
Wednesday, March 17 (Hilton Garden Inn)
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St. Patrick’s Day
reception & registration at the hotel. Pick up conference
packet. |
Thursday, March 18
(College Hall, USF Bayfront Campus)
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Registration at College Hall. Pick up conference packet. |
Lobby |
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Welcome to the conference by hosts. |
Music Room a |
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Keynote Speaker: “Shaw for the Here and Now” |
Music Room |
BREAK (15 Minutes)
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Session 1: “Shaw for Now and the Future?” Chaired by
R. F. Dietrich, USF
Music Room |
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"Shaw Now and in 2100 with Einstein and God,”
by Charles Berst, UCLA |
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“Shaw the Unintended Pedagogue,” by Michael
O’Hara, |
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TBA, by Dan H. Laurence, Shavian Emeritus |
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Lunch on your own (sandwiches & salads
will be for sale in the lobby for picnics on the lawn by the bay. Or visit the Banyan Tree Café on the grounds
of the |
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Session 2: “Shaw for Now and the
Future?”(continued) Chaired by
Lagretta Lenker, USF Music Room |
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“Universals & Ideology: Shaw’s Critique of
Liberal Humanism,” by Peter Gahan, |
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“Economics of the Gift: Shaw, Ricoeur,
and the Poetics of the Ethical Life,” by Howard Einsohn,
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“Shaw wit flava:
Universality, Authenticity, and the Hip Hop Aesthetics of Bernard Shaw,” by John
Harris, |
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BREAK (15
minutes) |
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Session
3—“Shaw’s Progeny” Chaired
by Jean Reynolds, Music Room |
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“J. M. Synge and the
Reconfiguration of G. B. Shaw in The
Playboy,” by Nelson |
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“Shaw and Granville Barker: Then and Now,” by Bob
Gaines, |
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“Are There Sons of Shaw? The Problematic Case of Mr. Priestley,” by John Shout, SUNY at |
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“Cashel Byron’s
Profession: Catalyst to Friendship as Life Imitates Art,” by Jay Tunney, NYC |
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Dinner on your
own. (Hilton Restaurant open from 6 to 10.
Café of the Arts also recommended) |
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After dinner, be entertained and
enlightened by “The First Annual ‘My Fair Lady’ Contest
(so to speak): Creative Writing Responses to Shaw and His Work” Music Room |
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“Undermined:
A Playwright’s Centenary Tribute to Major
Barbara, by Cary Barney, |
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“A Musical Sampling of Wealth, And How Not to Avoid It,” based on Major Barbara, by Charlie Mehler,
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“Samplings of Sherlock and Shaw: The Adventure of the Missing
Vampire Diaries,” by Aubrey Hampton, from |
Friday, March 19 (College Hall)
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Registration. Pick up conference packet. |
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Plenary Speaker: Bernard Dukore “Machiavelli, the Shark, and the Tinpot Tragedienne” |
Music Room |
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BREAK (15 minutes) |
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Session 4 “MAJOR PLAYS” Chaired by
Gale Larson, Music Room |
Session 5 “MAJOR PLAYS” Chaired by
Mary Ann Crawford, “The Dining Room” |
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“Heartbreak
House: Making War on War,” by Lagretta
Lenker, USF. |
“St. Bernard to the Rescue of the Chinese
Theater: Major Barbara in |
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From Erewhon to Major Barbara: Samuel Butler and the Antecedents of
Shaw’s Thought,” by Albert Braverman, M.D.
at Downstate Medical College, SUNY |
“Shaw Envisions the 20th
C.: Major Barbara and Pygmalion as Projected History,” by Nicholas
Williams, Saitama Institute, |
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“Major
Barbara: Shaw’s Republic,” by Sidney
Albert, Emeritus at |
“Pygmalion
as a |
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“Shaw’s Saint Joan: A ‘Platonian’ Tragedy,” by P. S. Sri, |
“Correcting the Professor in Pygmalion,” by Frank Donoghue, |
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“The Talking Cure: Freud, Lacan, Henry, and Eliza,” by Jean Reynolds, |
“Of Saints and Monsters: Shaw’s Saint Joan as Teratography,”
by Sasha Normand,
USF. |
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Lunch on your own (sandwiches & salads for sale in the
lobby). |
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Special Guest Speakers: Eric Bentley interviewed by Sally Peters “Eric Bentley & Bernard Shaw” Music Room |
30 minutes |
BREAK & Book Signing |
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Session 6 “Victorian/Edwardian Shaw” Chaired by Stuart Baker, FSU Music Room |
Session 7 “Shaw and the Stage” Chaired by Nancy Cole, USF “The Dining Room” |
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“Who Was Phillipa
Summers? Reflections on Vivie |
“When Present Becomes Distant: Shaw on the
Contemporary Stage,” by Arthur Horowitz, California Institute of the
Arts |
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“Lesbian Representations in Mrs. |
“Tear Down the 4th Wall: Rethinking
Contemporary Production Choices of Shaw’s Plays,” by Lisa Wilde, Yale
School of Drama & Rep Stage in Columbia, MD. |
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“A Geographical Consciousness: John Bull’s Other Island and Diasporic
Identity,” by Gary Richardson, |
“Who’s Modern Now?
Shaw, Joyce, and Ibsen’s When We
Dead Awaken,” by
Kathy Ochshorn, |
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“Social Critique and Serious Comedy in You Never Can Tell,” by Miriam Chirico, Eastern |
“From the Festival of Dionysus to Malvern, by way of
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Reception & Banquet at College Hall, followed by Anthony
Wynn’s “Bernard and Bosie: A Most Unlikely
Friendship,” starring Barry Morse and |
Saturday, March 20 (College Hall, USF Bayfront Campus)
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Plenary Speaker: Don Wilmeth— “The
Millionairess: A Remarkable Piece of Bravura:” Music Room |
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BREAK (15
Minutes) |
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Session 8: “Panel on The Millionairess” Chaired by
R. F. Dietrich Music Room |
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”Shaw’s Sense of Two Endings in The Millionairess,” by Norma Jenckes,
U. of |
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“The
Millionairess: Shaw’s Insinuations on Feminism and Marriage,” by Tracy
Collins, |
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“Goodbye Epifania; Hello
Dolly: Carol Channing’s Lucky Break,” by Charlie
Mehler, |
BREAK (15 minutes)
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Session 9—“Untitled” Chaired by
R. F. Dietrich Music Room |
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“How Do You Find Out What’s Written on
Shaw?” by Charles. A. Carpenter, Bibliographer Emeritus at |
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“‘The Bourgeois Superman:’ The 1930s
Attack on Shaw from the Left,” by Rosemarie Rowley, Senior College,
Dun Laoghire, Co. |
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“Shaw Responds to Shaw Bashing,” John
Bertolini, |
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“Print Culture and Censored,
Unpublished, and Embedded Shaw: Shavian Analysis of Media in War Time,” Daniel
O’Leary, |
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Lunch on your own (sandwiches & salads for sale in the
lobby) |
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Session 10: “SHAW ABROAD” Chaired by
Rodelle Weintraub Music Room |
Session 11: “Miscellaneous Shaw” Chaired by
John Pfeiffer, “The Dining Room” |
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“Shaw’s Contributions to the Culture and Politics of
fin de siėcle
Vienna,” Hannes Schweiger,
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“’Old Gentlemen:’ Age Differences as Plot Subversion
in Shaw’s Plays,” Valerie Lipscomb, USF. |
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“In Pursuit of Perfection: Shaw and the Indian
Connection,” Gautam Sengupta,
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“Shaw Among the Shopgirls,”
Rebecca Cameron, |
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“Shaw and |
“Dick Dudgeon and Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne:
Evolution Towards the Superman?” by Glenda Cimino,
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“Shaw, |
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3:45 to 5:00 pm BREAK
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In the Cook Theatre at the Asolo. Eric Bentley will be interviewed on
“Two Shaw Plays of the Late Thirties, |
30 minutes |
BREAK & Book Signing |
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Buffet Dinner in the Mertz Theatre Mezzanine--$20 extra. Send checks to R. F. Dietrich, |
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Shaw’s The Millionairess at
the Asolo Theatre. Discount Price to Conference: $37; $25 for students. |
Sunday, March 21 (Hilton Garden Inn)
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Business Meeting of the International Shaw Society. Non-members welcome. (Music
Room or Hilton Hotel--TBA) |
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Meeting of the ISS
Council. Dietrich’s Room. |
Please note that Eric Bentley’s appearance at this conference was made
possible by grants from The Asolo Theatre, The Humanities Institute of the
University of South Florida, William Scheuerle
Director, and the Gorilla Theatre of Tampa, under the direction of Aubrey
Hampton and Susan Hussey.
Things to do if you’re
staying an extra day or two or coming early:
1. Visit the
2. Visit the
3. See
something at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Center.
3. Visit the
4. See another
play at the Asolo Theatre.
4. Visit the
beaches off
5. We particularly recommend that you Visit The Gorilla
Theatre in Tampa (not far from the airport if you’re flying out of TPA), where Shaw
enthusiast Aubrey Hampton’s Sherlock and Shaw: The
Adventure of the Missing Vampire Diaries will have its world premiere. Here’s the answer to how Bram
Stoker came to write Dracula whilst working for Henry Irving at the Lyceum. There’s a matinee on Sunday, March 21, that
you could catch while waiting for your plane to leave, but for tickets and
information, call their box office at 813-879-2914 or go to their website at www.gorillatheatre.com or, more specifically, http://www.gorilla-theatre.com/sherlock.html.
For directions, go to http://www.gorilla-theatre.com/directions.html. The address is