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statue by Prince Paul Troubetzkoy of
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Author, Playwright and Critic
The Triumph of Cú Chulainn, a tapestry by Louis Le Brocquy
A new wing, called the Millennium Wing, was opened in 2002. Unlike the previous two extensions, this new wing has street frontage and the English architects Benson & Forsyth gave it an imposing Bowers Whitbed, Portland Stone façade and grand atrium. The design originally involved demolishing an adjoining Geogian terrace house and its ballroom mews; however, the Irish planning appeals authority, An Bord Pleanála, required that they be retained.
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A hipster pub/bar The Bernard Shaw, (G.B. Shaw) closed some months ago, a nice piece of street art appeared recently at its prior location expressing how a lot of its clientele felt :)
The Guthrie Theater overlooks the Mississippi River and great views are possible from the cantilever "Endless Bridge" that projects over the street. The windows have mirrors around the inside opening that provide lots of fun photos. This theater is named after Sir Tyrone Guthrie who is responsible for establishing the theater in Minneapolis, MN. Photos on the outside include Anton Chekov, Tennesee Williams, George Bernard Shaw, and August Wilson in addition to Sir Tyrone.
British postcard. J. Beagles & Co., London, 179 V. Photo Lizzie Caswall Smith. Forbes-Robertson as Julius Caesar in G.B. Shaw's play Caesar and Cleopatra (1899).
Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937) was a British actor and theatre manager. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era, and also played Hamlet a few times on the screen.
British postcard, dated 17-7-1903. Photo Lafayette, London, No. 2014.
Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937) was a British actor and theatre manager. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era, and also played Hamlet a few times on the screen.
Johnston Forbes-Robertson was born in London on 16 January 1853, as the eldest of the eleven children of theatre critic and journalist John Forbes-Robertson and his wife Frances. One of his sisters, Frances, and three of his brothers, Ian, Norman and John, also became actors. He was the brother-in-law of famed actress Maxine Elliott, the uncle of economist Roy Harrod, and great-uncle of actress Meriel Forbes (granddaughter of his brother Norman), who married actor Ralph Richardson.
While intending to become an artist, he trained for three years at the Royal Academy, but reluctantly and for financial needs he began a theatrical career, when dramatist William Gorman Wills offered him a role in his play Mary Queen of Scots. His many performances led him into travel to the U.S., work with Sir Henry Irving, and moving in the highest aristocratic and cultural circles. In 1895 he took over the management of the Lyceum Theatre, with Mrs. Patrick Campbell as leading lady. Here he gave memorable performances as Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo, and produced himself Maurice Maeterlinck’s Pelléas and Mélisande, in which his Romantic style of acting was highly successful.
Forbes-Robertson was hailed as one of the most individual and refined of English actors, noted for his ascetic features but even more for his fine elocution, particularly by George Bernard Shaw who wrote him the part of Caesar in Caesar and Cleopatra, which premiered in March 1899 at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle. Forbes-Robertson played opposite Gertrude Elliott as Cleopatra, both part of Mrs. Patrick Campbell's company. Other notable roles were Othello, Leontes in The Winter's Tale, and in particular his successful lead in Jerome K. Jerome’s The Passing of the Third Floor Back; performed on Broadway in 1908, filmed in 1916, and released in 1918. Forbes-Robertson did not play Hamlet until he was 44 years old, but after his success in this part he continued playing it until 1916, including a surviving silent film (1913), see www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4YVWqhPDr8 and www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk6qI40HjT0. Shaw considered him the greatest Hamlet he had ever seen. Hear Forbes-Robertson reciting Hamlet: www.britannica.com/biography/Johnston-Forbes-Robertson, also www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYR50uA8nU (recordings from 1928, when the actor was 75).
In the 1880s Forbes-Robertson acted in plays with the gifted actress Mary Anderson and asked her hand in marriage, but she kindly turned him down, though they remained friends. Later he and actress Beatrice Campbell enjoyed a brief affair during the time she starred with him in a series of Shakespearean plays in the mid-1890s. In 1900, at age 47, he married American-born actress Gertrude Elliott (1874–1950), sister of Maxine Elliott, with whom he had four daughters. Their second daughter Jean Forbes-Robertson became an accomplished actress. Through her he is the grandfather of actress Joanna Van Gyseghem. Johnston Forbes-Robertson was knighted in 1913 at the age of 60, at which point he retired from acting. He returned to the stage, however, for a farewell tour of the US in 1914-1915, making his last appearance onstage at the Sanders Theatre in Boston with a performance of Hamlet. In the last years of his life he produced plays by George Bernard Shaw and Jerome K. Jerome. His literary works include: The Life and Life-Work of Samuel Phelps (actor and theatre manager) as well as his own autobiography Johnston Forbes-Robertson: A Player Under Three Reigns (1925).
On November 6, 1937, Johnston Forbes-Robertson died at St. Margaret's Bay, near Dover, Kent, and was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, London on November 9. Memorial services were held at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster, London.
Sources: English Wikipedia, IMDB.
British postcard. Rotary Photo, E.C., 105 T. Foulsham & Banfield. Forbes-Robertson and Gertrude Elliott in G.B. Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra (1899).
Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937) was a British actor and theatre manager. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era, and also played Hamlet a few times on the screen.
British postcard by Rotary Photo, E.C., no. 105 M. Photo: Lizzie Caswall Smith. Johnston Forbes-Robertson and Gertrude Elliott in the title roles of G.B. Shaw's play 'Caesar and Cleopatra' (1899).
Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937) was a British actor and theatre manager. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era, and also played Hamlet a few times on the screen.
A detail of the mural outside the Fitzrovia Neighbourhood Centre on the corner of Goodge Place and Tottenham Street. By Brian Barnes and painted in 2000, it features lots of famous past residents of the area, including these three: Olaudah Equiano, Simon Bolivar and George Bernard Shaw.
British postcard. Rotary Photo, E.C., 105 K. Photo Lizzie Caswall Smith. Forbes-Robertson as Julius Caesar in G.B. Shaw's play Caesar and Cleopatra (1899).
Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937) was a British actor and theatre manager. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era, and also played Hamlet a few times on the screen.
Stencil of George Bernard Shaw. Compare it with the original photo.
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What Happened to Eliza Doolittle? - inspired by G.B.Shaw’s ‚#Pygmalion‘
Premiere im #Literaturhaus in Graz – A devised play by the Pennyless Players
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J'ai reçu le monde entier, Elsa Maxwell,
Traduit et adapté par le duc de Noailles,
Club du meilleur livre du mois, Paris, 1955
présentation assurée par Jean Garcia
édition hors commerce
Artwork promoting the new Dark Room Notes album launch party in Dublin's Twisted Pepper on April 7th, 2012.
Anne-Marie Duff (of "The Magdalene Sisters" fame) just tore apart the role of Saint Joan. She was a frightening zealot, an endearing idealist, a fearless warrior, and a tenaciously singleminded teenager. She brought Joan to such charming, heartbreaking light that I didn't want the show to be over - even after 3 hours!
Anne-Marie Duff (of "The Magdalene Sisters" fame) just tore apart the role of Saint Joan. She was a frightening zealot, an endearing idealist, a fearless warrior, and a tenaciously singleminded teenager. She brought Joan to such charming, heartbreaking light that I didn't want the show to be over - even after 3 hours!
It was a George Bernard Shaw play, and they can be VERY talky!
image from: www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/stjoan
What Happened to Eliza Doolittle? - inspired by G.B.Shaw’s ‚#Pygmalion‘
Premiere im #Literaturhaus in Graz – A devised play by the Pennyless Players
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Anne-Marie Duff (of "The Magdalene Sisters" fame) just tore apart the role of Saint Joan. She was a frightening zealot, an endearing idealist, a fearless warrior, and a tenaciously singleminded teenager. She brought Joan to such charming, heartbreaking light that I didn't want the show to be over - even after 3 hours!
image from www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/stjoan
@dailyshoot #ds407: "Make a photograph that emphasizes the horizon today and post it"
All day at work - tonight the stage was my horizon
"My fair Lady" - Musical in zwei Akten nach George Bernard Shaws «Pygmalion» und dem Film von Gabriel Pascal im Theater Basel www.theater-basel.ch/spielplan/stueck.cfm?s_nr=4279
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Mrs. Pat Campbell in "Pygmallion"
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Photograph shows British actress Mrs Patrick Campbell (1865-1940) who was born Beatrice Stella Tanner. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.15801
Call Number: LC-B2- 3030-6
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"Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations."
George Bernard Shaw
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" We don't stop playing
because we grow old,
we grow old because
we stop playing!"
G.B. Shaw
I agree with the statement above, I personally don't mind reality, long as I don't have to stay very long.
What Happened to Eliza Doolittle? - inspired by G.B.Shaw’s ‚#Pygmalion‘
Premiere im #Literaturhaus in Graz – A devised play by the Pennyless Players
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Hotel Majestic. The Hotel Majestic opened on 18 July 1900 as the finest hotel of the world's greatest spa. Built by Frederick hotels and designed by London architect G. D. Martin, the majestic has, for over a century, been the preferred address of visitors such as Winston Churchill, Edward Elgar, Errol Flynn, 'James Herriot', G. B. Shaw and several Prime-Ministers. Bombed on 12 July 1940, the Hotel Majestic served as an RAF Reception Centre during the Second World War. It was extensively refurbished between 1998 and 2002.
A brood of young Dawn Ginsbergs cleverly hiding from predators by intermingling with more lowbrow species....
British postcard in the Fine Art Post Cards Series by Shurey's Publications. Photo: Langfier.
Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937) was a British actor and theatre manager. He was considered the finest Hamlet of the Victorian era, and also played Hamlet a few times on the screen.
my Pashley-Moulton TSR 27, in special 'Rubidium' finish...in the 'Elephant & Castle' beer garden near GBShaws house at Ayott St Laurence
George Bernard Shaw, part of a mural of Irish writers at the Half Moon Theatre in Cork painted by Dusto and Psychonautes.
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Vintage Dutch postcard. Photo by M.M. Couvée. Greta Lobo-Braakensiek as Eliza in the 4th act of the Dutch version of G.B. Shaw's stage play Pygmalion, performed from 25 January 1915 by the Koninklijke Vereeniging Het Nederlandsch Tooneel (K.V.H.N.T.). The first night took place at the Amsterdam based Stadsschouwburg, under direction of Herman Roelvink.
Vintage Dutch postcard. Photo by M.M. Couvée. Greta Lobo-Braakensiek as Eliza and Louis Gimberg as Henry Higgins in the 4th act of the Dutch version of G.B. Shaw's stage play Pygmalion, performed from 25 January 1915 by the Koninklijke Vereeniging Het Nederlandsch Tooneel (K.V.H.N.T.). The first night took place at the Amsterdam based Stadsschouwburg, under direction of Herman Roelvink.