Notices

SHAW 41.1 (to be published in June 2021) and SHAW 42.2 (to be published in December 2022) will include articles on general topics, as well as book reviews, the Checklist of Shaviana, Notices, and ISS information. Prospective essays for SHAW should be submitted directly to http://www.psupress.org/journals/jnls_shaw.html. Please include an abstract and, for matters of style, refer to recent SHAW volumes. For all other information about SHAW or to suggest other issue themes, contact Christopher Wixson at cmwixson@eiu.edu.SHAW 41.2 (to be published in December 2021) is titled “Bernard Shaw, Journalist” and will be guest-edited by Peter Gahan and Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel. SHAW 42.1 (to be published in June 2022), guest-edited by Miguel Cisneros Perales, explores “Shaw and Translation.”Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the 2020 season at the Shaw Festival, led by Artistic Director Tim Carroll, was canceled. It was to have featured Shaw's The Devil's Disciple (directed by Eda Holmes) alongside the following other productions: C. S. Lewis's Prince Caspian, adapted by Damien Atkins and directed by Molly Atkinson; Gypsy, book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, music by Jule Styne and directed by Kimberley Rampersad; Sherlock Holmes and the Raven's Curse, written by R. Hamilton Wright and directed by Craig Hall; Brandon Thomas's Charley's Aunt, directed by Tim Carroll; Assassins, book by John Weidman, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and directed by Meg Roe; Mahabharata, adapted by Ravi Jain and Miriam Fernandes and directed by Ravi Jain; Trouble in Mind, written by Alice Childress and directed by Philip Akin; Eugene O'Neill's Desire Under the Elms, directed by Selma Dimitrijevic; J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World, directed by Jackie Maxwell; and Flush, based upon the novella by Virginia Woolf and adapted/directed by Tim Carroll.For further information about the Festival's 2021 season, write to Shaw Festival, Post Office Box 774, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada, L0S 1J0; or call 1-800-511-SHAW [7429] or 905-468-2153; or go to www.shawfest.com.The annual series of summer performances of Shaw plays at Shaw's Corner, Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire remains on hiatus, the result of a decision made by the UK's National Trust in 2019. The planned stagings of The Man of Destiny and Annajanska the Bolshevik at the Palladian Church in Ayot St. Lawrence (4-5 July 2020) by Michael Friend Productions were postponed due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. For more information, go to www.mfp.org.uk.The Gingold Theatrical Group (GTG), headed by producer and director David Staller, continues to stage a concert reading of one Shaw play per month at Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at West 95th Street, New York City). Organized around the theme of “Seeing Clearly Through Art,” the planned productions and events of the 2020 season, the GTG's fifteenth, were disrupted by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, but regular readings of Shaw plays (including Arms and the Man, Candida, Mrs Warren's Profession, Misalliance, and Caesar and Cleopatra) by members of the company were streamed online. See www.projectshaw.com.Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the 44th annual Comparative Drama Conference (4–6 April 2020) at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida was rescheduled for 14–16 October 2021. Abstract proposals for the Shaw sessions may be sent to Ellen Dolgin at ellen.dolgin@dc.edu until 3 April 2021.Due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the 17th annual Summer Shaw Symposium migrated online (23–25 July 2020) with four virtual sessions of panel presentations, a keynote with Kimberley Rampersad (Associate Artistic Director of the Shaw Festival), and a concert reading of a new adaptation of Buoyant Billions by Christopher Wixson. Co-sponsored by The Shaw Festival and the International Shaw Society, the Symposium drew participants from Japan, China, Australia, Europe, England, Ireland, India, Canada, and the United States.Gustavo A. Rodríguez Martín's GBS channel on YouTube continuous its salubrious growth; you can access various Shaw-related videos at www.youtube.com/channel/UCxGpZjHhix37VN-zFfX6psg/playlists.As a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the general meeting of the Bernard Shaw Society of Japan was held online on 25 September, and its annual Shaw Seminar in Atami was canceled. The BSSJ looks forward to returning to their regular schedule in 2021.The Shaw Society (UK) was founded in 1941 and its members meet monthly in the John Thaw Room at The Actors Centre, London, for talks, lectures, and play readings. For more information and a sample issue of the society's publication The Shavian, see www.shawsociety.org.uk/. You can also follow them on Twitter @ShawSoc. Information about their affiliated theater company, SHAW2020, can be found via http://www.shawsociety.org.uk/shaw2020.html. On 26 September, their Sharing Shaw series presented a live online performance of three Shaw playlets: “The Girl with the Golden Voice” (1935), “Beauty's Duty” (1913), and “Skit for the Tiptaft Revue for the Fabian Summer School 1917.” Check out their “Talking Shaw” online series at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaflt_U7S8rOEzEpmHLfq0w as well as the National Trust podcasts featuring members of The Shaw Society at: https://podcasts.google.com/?q=national%20trust%20bernard%20shaw.The Summer Shaw Symposium at Niagara-on-the-Lake and Shaw sessions at the Comparative Drama Conference are annually sponsored by the International Shaw Society. For information about the ISS and details about calls for papers, go to www.shawsociety.org.

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