Charity celebrating Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw's theatre & writings. Publication-The Shavian #Donate ➡️https://nitter.cf/t.co/S2fOnwP8CI #GeorgeBernardShaw
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Our next Playreading Workshop is today Wed 28 Oct The Land of Heart’s Desire by Shaw’s friend WB Yeats. It was Yeats first professional production at the Avenue Theatre London 1894 6.30 for 7pm £10 with a light supper Or join us on Zoom for FREE
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Happy #WorldOperaDay - Philip Hagemann has adapted several of Shaw’s plays as operas. They are a perfect introduction to opera. You will be able to see Shaw’s play ‘Passion, Poison and Petrifaction’ as a double bill with Hagemann’s opera June-July 2027 #shawsociety Details soon!
Happy #WorldOperaDay ! As well as being a playwright Bernard Shaw was a renowned music critic, a Mozart enthusiast and author of ‘The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs’ (1898). #BernardShaw #Opera #shawsociety
‘Not Bloody Likely’ by Neil Titley at the #ConwayHall part of the #BloomsburyFestival Sold Out but a few returns if you hurry !
Really looking forward to today's #ConwayHall performance of NOT BLOODY LIKELY The library is our historic venue & there's a very good Shavian display there @ShawSoc
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It’s #OscarWilde’s birthday! 172 years ago, on October the 16th, 1854 in Dublin, our man was born. 80 members of the Oscar Wilde Society are having a Birthday Dinner at the Athenaeum club in London. Others are celebrating in Paris and in San Francisco this weekend. Raise a glass!
We were delighted to see a recreation of the bedroom on #shawsociety trip to Glasgow and the Hunterian Museum in February this year @hunterian
ALT Bedroom design by Rennie Mckintosh Striped b&w walls and wooden pair of single beds with royal with blue / b&w striped covering
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Bassett-Lowke was a friend & admirer of fellow Socialist George Bernard Shaw who assured his hosts when staying in the guest bedroom that the strident & vibrant design would not disturb his rest as he slept with his eyes closed
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Owner of a model-making business & Fabian socialist, Wenman Joseph Bassett-Lowke on his marriage in 1917 commissioned Charlie’s Rennie Macintosh to remodel his small Northampton terraced house in Modernist style with striking interiors
Make sure you get a ticket! tickettailor.com/events/bloo…
Shaw wrote the part of Eliza Doolittle for the legendary Mrs Patrick Campbell. Come & hear her story at the Bloomsbury Festival in Neil Titley's hour long, one woman show- NOT BLOODY LIKELY! #Bloomsburyfestival #conwayhall
Tonight !
Fintan O'Toole to give 2026 Yeats Lecture in London:
the Yeats Bedford Park Project is delighted to welcome the renowned Irish author, columnist and drama critic to talk here on Yeats's London home-patch of🌻#BedfordPk🌻
Info/booking: tinyurl.com/fintanotoole-202… (tickets going fast!)
Read about ‘Not Bloody Likely’ at the Bloomsbury Festival in the Camden’s @NewJournal
What a wonderful day ! Shaw would have appreciated the cake 🍰
It was our pleasure to welcome and host the @als_fair today at the BMI. Hundreds through the doors, celebrity speakers and lots of cake.
A massive Thank you to all those who attended and made the day what it's been. #birmingham #literacy_fair
Author Neil Titley and actor Alexis Leighton (who stars as the indomitable Mrs Patrick Campbell) are on @BloomsburyRadio 10-11pm tonight talking about their upcoming production of ‘Not Bloody Likely’ Conway Hall on 18 Oct part of the #BloomsburyFestival
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Looking forward to the Alliance of Literary Societies Fair 2026 today at the @bmi1854. Shaw had so many connections to Birmingham - so perfect place to visit. allianceofliterarysocieties.…
#greatwriters #bernardshaw #shawsociety #birmingham
Happy 80th Birthday Patrica Hodge OBE
'I was brought up in a hotel right by the dock gates, we saw all the different strata of life…it fostered my imagination.'
Patricia Hodge told @KrupaPadhyBBC about her love of dancing, childhood and her career. Catch up on @BBCSounds 🎧
What a perfect way to celebrate the 80th birthday of our Vice-President Patricia Hodge - listen to her on @therosebudpod
#happybirthday #patriciahodge #shawsociety
Hooray! Hooray! It's her birthday today! Saluting one of our favouriite ever guests - on @therosebudpod and on @YouTube: the amazingly now in her ninth decade Patricia Hodge!
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Director @Jonas_Cemm shows his Shavian gift for directing dialogue and getting an audience to think deeply with Giles Coles’ new play ‘Girl Out of the Blue’ @TheatreAtTabard Playing till 10th Oct
'Girl Out Of The Blue' debuts at @TheatreAtTabard with a hilariously relatable storyline that will leave you reflecting on your relationships and questioning what behaviour you may dismiss, all in the name of love.
Read Holly-Lily’s ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review:
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