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Symposium Schedule

This schedule is subject to change until July 15.

Friday, July 22

2 pm: performance and post-show chat with actors [Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre]
Shaw, Too True to Be Good ​ ​(tickets must be purchased individually)

4:45-5:30 pm: wine and cheese reception [Festival Rehearsal Hall]

5:30-6:15 pm pm: keynote address [Festival Rehearsal Hall]
Tim Jennings, Shaw Festival Executive Director


Saturday, July 23

9-9:30 am: refreshments and conversation [Court House Main, 26 Queen St., 3rd Floor]

9:30-10:45 am: Panel 1
Mary Christian, "The Wrath to Come: Revisiting Bunyan in Too True to be Good"
John McInerney, "Shaw's Too True to Be Good: A Late Experiment?"
Daniel Abdalla, "The Girl Who Goes Out: Women and Heredity Onstage in Edwardian Britain"

10:45-11 am: break

11am-12:15 pm: Panel 2
Brigitte Bogar, "Operatic Adaptations of Shaw by Philip Hagemann"
Jean Reynolds, "Win, Lose, or Draw: Energy Sources in Major Barbara"
Yulia Skalnaya, "An Extravagant Take on Shaw's 'Political Extravaganza': The First Soviet Translations of The Apple Cart"

12:15-1:30 pm: lunch on your own

1:30-3 pm: discussion with Diana Donnelly, director, The Doctor's Dilemma

3-3:30 pm: break

3:30-5:00 pm: Panel 3
Vishnu Patil, "Between the Formal Symbolic Structure and Positivity of the Object: A Study of Shaw's Pygmalion and
​Tagore's Chitra"
Arnab Banerji, "Is It Tagore's Time Yet? Rabindranath Tagore's Theatre and Its Continued Relevance"
Kay Li, "The Doctor's Dilemma as Immersive Theatre Adaptation: From Tagore's Chitra in China to Resolving Medical Ethics though Virtual Reality"
​Laurie Wolf, "Ladies and Gentlemen: For This Performance the Role of Dr. Anthony Fauci Will Be Played by Sir Colenso Ridgeon"

5 pm: concluding remarks

8 pm: performance [Festival Theatre]
The Doctor's Dilemma (tickets must be purchased individually)


Sunday, July 23


9-9:30 am: refreshments and conversation [Court House Main, 26 Queen St., 3rd Floor]

9:30-10:30 am: Roundtable discussion featuring authors of books published in the Palgrave series 'Bernard Shaw and His Contemporaries'

10:30-11 am: break

11 am-12 pm: Chat with cast members, The Doctor's Dilemma

12-1:30 pm: picnic lunch

1:30-2 pm: Bernard Dukore, "Shaw's Proposal and Churchill's Hope"

2 pm: President's report on 'Shaw in Europe' (Cáceres conference)

2:30 pm: Business meeting of the ISS

30 minutes after the meeting's conclusion: President's reception, 215 Ricardo St., Suite 203 


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