George Bernard Shaw & Christopher Newton

George Bernard Shaw & Christopher Newton Explorations of Shavian Theatre

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Publisher's Synopsis

Christopher Newton has placed the Shaw Festival firmly on the map of world-class theatre. His best Shavian productions are revolutionary re-interpretations of plays that are normally treated as Edwardian period pieces or didactic entertainments. In this first full-length study of Newton, critic Keith Garebian shows how the pairing of Shaw and Newton, that once seemed not bloody likely, has become one of the most exciting enterprises in Canadian theatre, with startling results. George Bernard Shaw & Christopher Newton begins with a biographical section that sketches some of the most perasive influences on Newton's artistic sensibility, and suggests what had particularly inspired his ever-growing fascination with Shaw. Successive chapters document Newton's concept of Shaw as a surrealist, and contain detailed descriptions of productions at Niagara- on -the- Lake from 1980-1990. Among other things, readers are shown a Caesar and Cleopatra set in a Shadow Box; Heartbreak House as a dream-play of the night and anarchy; Major Barbara as a double quest; You Never Can Tell as part comic romance, part farcical metaphor; the metatheatrical suggestions of Man and Superman; and a Misalliance as a metaphor of a convulsive new age. As Garebian shows, Newton's approach for all its paradoxes, succeeds in making George Bernard Shaw our dynamic contemporary.

Book information

ISBN: 9780889625082
Publisher: Mosaic Press
Imprint: Mosaic Press
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 164
Weight: 306g
Height: 228mm
Width: 154mm
Spine width: 13mm