For the first time, the Shaw Festival in Niagara-On-The-Lake will present a work by Tom Stoppard in the summer of 2013, the Festival's 52nd season. His Arcadia will be directed by Eda Holmes (pictured, courtesy of the Shaw Festival).
Only one play actually written by George Bernard Shaw is included in the season: the classic Major Barbara, whose central character works in the Salvation Army. That makes it a clever pairing with the wonderful Broadway musical Guys and Dolls, which is partly about a New York con man's bet that he can date a Salvation Army "doll". The Festival's two other musicals are Tony nominees Enchanted April and The Light in the Piazza.
A second Shaw script comes in disguise: titled Peace in Our Time: A Comedy, it's an adaptation of Shaw's play Geneva by Canadian playwright John Murrell. The 2013 season is rounded out by a selection of plays by playwrights who are, like Shaw, Irish (Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan and Brian Friel's Faith Healer), or at least of Irish ancestry (W. Somerset Maugham's Our Betters). There's also a Lunchtime program of two short plays: Trifles by Susan Glaspell and A Wife for a Life by Eugene O'Neill (yet another Irish descendant).
The Shaw Festival's 2012 season continues into October, with productions of Hedda Gabler, His Girl Friday, The Millionairess, Trouble in Tahiti, Ragtime, Misalliance, Present Laughter and Come Back, Little Sheba. To order tickets and for further information, visit the Shaw Festival.
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