Shaw Festival 2007 Season
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Artistic Director: Jackie Maxwell
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario Canada

(Play names link to Shaw Festival website)

Saint Joan
April 21 - October 27, 2007
Festival Theatre

Faith or folly? Through the meteoric rise and fall of the charismatic young Joan of Arc, Bernard Shaw shines a bright light on the roots of nationalism, religious fervor and hero worship. One of Shaw's most celebrated plays!

Mack and Mabel
April 3 - October 28, 2007
Festival Theatre

A musical about the movies - the early days, as the walkies became the talkies - featuring larger-than-life Mack Sennett and his galaxy of stars, including Mabel Normand, the love of his life and the biggest star of them all.

Hotel Peccadillo
May 31 - October 7, 2007
Festival Theatre

A new adaptation of a brilliant farce, combining Feydeau's breathtaking twists and turns with Panych's provocative, off-the-wall humor. A sophisticated contemporary take on an age-old story.

The Circle
April 10 - October 28, 2007
Royal George Theatre

Does history always repeat itself? The romantic ideal of leaving everything behind for the sake of "true love" is cleverly put to the test in this sophisticated story from the writer of The Constant Wife, Somerset Maugham.

The Philanderer
May 1 - October 7, 2007
Royal George Theatre

Once again Bernard Shaw has set up a delightfully comic context to examine the foibles of love and courtship, as played out by the "philanderer" Leonard Charteris and three sparkling and vitally different young women - Julia and Sylvia Craven, and Grace Tranfield - a combustible mix of womanly and unwomanly.

Summer and Smoke
June 23 - October 27, 2007
Royal George Theatre

All her life, Alma Winemiller has been irresistibly drawn to the dangerous and wild Dr. John Buchanan. And now she may just have her chance at love. A shimmering story of the conflicts and reconciliations of the heart and spirit.

A Month in the Country
April 29 - October 6, 2007
Court House Theatre

How much love does one person need? A potent combination of Russian passion and Irish humor weave the bewitching tale of a woman with a faithful husband and an adoring lover who finds herself attracted to her son's handsome tutor.

The Cassilis Engagement  - A Mother's Comedy
May 29 - October 5, 2007
Court House Theatre

Adelaide Cassilis' beloved son intends to marry an entirely unsuitable shopgirl. So Adelaide hatches a brilliant play to show this girl the "best" of country life, and soon has her looking for the nearest way out!

Tristan
July 12 - October 6, 2007
Court House Theatre
In a turn-of-the-century health spa set high in the German Alps, schedules must be kept and rules must be followed. But what about love and passion? Can they be expected to follow the rules?


The Kiltartan Comedies
June 20 - October 6, 2007 (Lunchtime)
Court House Theatre

Two sparkling pieces reveal the foibles of the quirky denizens of a fictional Irish village as conceived by one of Ireland's great patrons of the theatre, Lady Augusta Gregory.

 

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