A Bernard Shaw play will be performed in a church not far from the celebrated Irish playwright’s former home in Ayot St Lawrence.
Village Wooing, A Comedietta for Two Voices, by Bernard Shaw, will be performed at The Palladian Church in the Hertfordshire countryside on Friday, August 13 and Saturday, August 14.
SHAW2020 presents this knockabout battle of the sexes in a Shaw Society sponsored production.
Village Wooing is a charming two-hander in which the characters, simply named ‘A’ and ‘Z’, play a relentless game of cat and mouse across land and sea.
This hour-long play has had many incarnations, most notably in a 1979 ITV production, starring Richard Briers as ‘A’ and Dame Judi Dench, a Shaw Society vice-president, as ‘Z’.“It’s wonderful to see Shaw’s plays being kept alive, and to such a high standard by SHAW2020. Long may they continue,” said Dench, who also played M in the Bond films.
SHAW2020 theatre company is dedicated to the performance, exploration, and adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s works. Their focus is to bring Bernard Shaw’s theatre and writings – including those of his contemporaries and those he influenced – to a wider, more diverse audience.
In 2019, SHAW2020 performed at The Palladian Church, to sell-out audiences, with a five-star reviewed tour of Shaw’s Arms and the Man. They hoped to repeat the success in 2020 with the infamous Mrs Warren’s Profession. However, as 2020 was the year that wasn’t, SHAW2020 and The Shaw Society transferred their performances online, presenting a programme of Zoom theatre events entitled ‘Sharing Shaw’ and the YouTube series ‘Talking Shaw’.
Now, in 2021, they are delighted to be flexing their live theatre muscles once more after a year of online content.
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