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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 20010425
Author:DAMIEN JAQUES

Ambitious Shaw festival proves up to the task

By DAMIEN JAQUES

Journal Sentinel theater critic

Wednesday, April 25, 2001

A theatergoer who has seen all 7 1/2 hours of Milwaukee's 19th annual George Bernard Shaw Festival may have two defensible responses.

One is interest in the thought process and philosophy at work in the mind of an eccentric, intriguing and undeniably brilliant man of letters. The other response could view the entire festival as a well- produced tribute to a playwright's self-indulgence.

This year's fest is devoted to a single project that sprang from Shaw's pen not long ...

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