The Shaw was founded in 1962, and began as an eight week theatre, and now has grown into an annual festival with over 800 performance a year. The Shaw Festival is dedicated to producing the works of Shaw and his contemporaries. And over recent years, Jackie Maxwell, the artist director at Shaw, has strived to increase the views from a younger audience, so more diverse drama's have been performed to intrigue all ages.
The Shaw Festival season starts April 1 and runs through to October 31, and this years performances all look amazing. I do have my eye on quite a few this season: An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, Age of Arousal by Linda Griffiths, The Women by Clare Boothe Luce, and of course, The Doctor's Dilemma by Bernard Shaw.
During the off-season (from December to February) the Shaw Festival shows international-indie films that one cannot see at their local movie theatre. And to top it off, you are allowed to bring in your own treats, or buy kettle popcorn in the lobby and you can go in jeans and a hoodie without receiving any weird looks from bystanders.
If you are planning to make a weekend out of the Shaw Festival, many hotels offer Shaw packages, with a shuttle service that will take you there and pick you up.
Now all you have to do is choose the shows you want to see and set the date.
Hopefully, I'll see you there.
For further information on the Shaw Festival.
"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
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