The Admirable Bashville
This play is, in fact, based upon Shaw’s own highly successful novel, Cashel Byron’s Profession. The novel follows Cashel Byron, a world champion prizefighter, as he tries to woo wealthy aristocrat Lydia Carew without revealing his illegal profession. Meanwhile, she also has a secret admirer in her formidable footman, Bashville. Brains vs brawn. The play follows much the same path. The novelty of this particular play is that Shaw wrote it as a parody of Shakespeare. The entire play is, in fact, written in blank verse. As the characters are all ‘contemporary’ this makes for a unique comic lunacy in Shaw’s canon. As Admirable Bashville is a very short play, the evening also included readings from some of Shaw’s letter and excerpts from prefaces.
Written by George Bernard Shaw in 1901.
Cast & Crew
Cast
Unknown | John Allen |
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Unknown | Irma Angelo |
Unknown | David Blair |
Unknown | Gordon Brown |
Unknown | Elizabeth Clifford |
Unknown | Peter Copley |
Unknown | Arthur Cummings |
Unknown | George Devine |
Unknown | Peter Du Calion |
Unknown | William Fox |
Unknown | Morland Graham |
Unknown | Margaret Greig |
Unknown | Clare Harris |
Unknown | Crafton Harris |
Unknown | Charles Hickman |
Unknown | Wyman Kane |
Unknown | Lilian Lee |
Unknown | Ursula Lock |
Unknown | James Lytton |
Unknown | Mary Norris |
Unknown | Rex Parkin |
Unknown | Margaret Powell |
Unknown | Anthony Quayle |
Unknown | Alastair Sim |
Unknown | Marjorie Stewart |
Unknown | Harry Sturges |
Unknown | Desmond Walter Ellis |
Unknown | Patricia Wilding |
Unknown | Cecil Winter |
Unknown | Ruth Wynn Owen |
Cashel Byron | Roger Livesey |
First Policeman | Marius Goring |
Lydia Carew | Valerie Tudor |
Crew | |
Designer | Owen Paul Smythe |
Director | Harcourt Williams |
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