{"title":"Shavian Arias and Virtuosity: Patrick Mason on Directing Shaw","authors":"B. Houlihan","doi":"10.5325/shaw.40.2.0247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.40.2.0247","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This interview with award-winning director and former artistic director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Patrick Mason, features a detailed discussion with Mason, regarding his experiences in directing works by Bernard Shaw in Ireland. Mason offers insights from when he first worked as a voice coach on the production of Saint Joan at the Abbey in 1972, directed by Lelia Doolan, and on his later career as a director. Mason discusses directing Shaw at the Gate Theatre along with a series of other Anglo-Irish plays during the 1980s; directing Shaw at the Abbey Theatre including his 1998 production of Saint Joan that starred Jane Brennan; how Shaw is situated today within the canon of Irish and national drama; how Shaw and his plays meet contemporary audiences; and the wider legacy(ies) of Shaw to the theater today.","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"354 1","pages":"247 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77379389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joan and Her Sisters","authors":"Brigitte Bogar","doi":"10.5325/shaw.40.2.0334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.40.2.0334","url":null,"abstract":"JOHN M. MCINERNEY is a professor emeritus from the University of Scranton, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he taught English Literature with a concentration on modern drama. A veteran member of, and former officer in the International Shaw Society, he has contributed chapters to Shaw and Feminisms, edited by D. A. Hadfield and Jean Reynolds, and George Bernard Shaw in Context, edited by Brad Kent. He has also worked for many years in university and community theater as an actor, director, and playwright.","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"423 1","pages":"334 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77000691","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Researching Shaw in Performance: An Interview with Aisling Smith","authors":"P. O’Beirne","doi":"10.5325/shaw.40.2.0273","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.40.2.0273","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Aisling Smith completed her practice as research PhD program at NUI Galway from 2015 to 2018, focusing on the dramatic work of George Bernard Shaw. Specifically, she staged and directed three of his plays: a site-specific production of O'Flaherty V.C., an epic theater production of Pygmalion, and an intermedial production of The Millionairess. In this interview about her work, Smith discusses how relevant Shaw is to today's intellectual and performance scene and details the insights she gleaned into Shaw's dramatic work, including how, when creating her epic production of Pygmalion, she discovered new and revealing Brechtian elements in Shaw's play text and performance style.","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"16 13 1","pages":"273 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83744926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"News of Interest, Encouraging Words, and Frank Admonitions for a Friend","authors":"J. Mcinerney","doi":"10.5325/shaw.40.2.0332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.40.2.0332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"332 - 334"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79406544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Municipal Gallery: Interview with Mr. Bernard Shaw The Danger of Fire The Poor and Pictures Municipal Art Gallery The Bridge Site","authors":"Shaw","doi":"10.5325/shaw.41.2.0459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.41.2.0459","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"70890197","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction: Bernard Shaw and New Media","authors":"J. Buckley","doi":"10.5325/shaw.40.1.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.40.1.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"1 - 9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89816481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Common Senselessness about the War: On Shaw's Media Delirium","authors":"Joshua Reeves","doi":"10.5325/shaw.40.1.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.40.1.0036","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:This article analyzes how biases in Shaw's media environment are reflected in his experiences and representations of the First World War. After turning to contemporary media theory to assess the ways in which war mediates the legibility of one's surroundings, this article discusses Shaw's critique of war delirium in \"Common Sense about the War.\" After examining excerpts from \"Joy Riding at the Front\" and the preface of Heartbreak House—which diverge in interesting ways from \"Common Sense\"—this article concludes by offering some speculative insights into what Shaw's war ambivalence contributes to new media theory.","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"36 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78572783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ELIZA Effects: Pygmalion and the Early Development of Artificial Intelligence","authors":"Lawrence Switzky","doi":"10.5325/shaw.40.1.0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.40.1.0050","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Since the 1970s, scientists and psychologists have described what they call ELIZA effects: the tendency to attribute intelligence to responsive computers. ELIZA effects can be traced back to a natural language processing program or chatbot named ELIZA and created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the mid-1960s and to Weizenbaum's inspiration, Eliza Doolittle, in Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. This article examines Shaw's influence on ELIZA and his anticipatory engagement with questions about machine \"thinking\" and the origin and nature of intelligence that continue to drive research in computer science. It illuminates Shaw's significance for Weizenbaum and the pathbreaking English mathematician and theorist of artificial intelligence Alan Turing. It also proposes how we might reread Shaw's plays, and Pygmalion in particular, in light of what Weizenbaum and Turing found in Shaw.","PeriodicalId":40781,"journal":{"name":"Shaw-The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies","volume":"84 1","pages":"50 - 68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90322487","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}