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Heartfelt performances at the Shaw Festival: From the poignant ?Saint Joan' to the provocative ?Hotel Peccadillo,' the Shaw season celebrates the human experience.

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From: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
Date: 20070330
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Byline: Colin Dabkowski

Mar. 30--In the preface to his classic essay on German composer Richard Wagner, George Bernard Shaw stood up for serious works of drama, musing that the more lighthearted works of Shakespeare could never stand up to the Bard's true dramatic masterpieces. "A poet's sincerest vision of the world," Shaw wrote, "must always take precedence of his prettiest fool's paradise." At this year's Shaw Festival, which runs from Tuesday through Oct. 28 in Niagara-onthe- Lake, Ont., one of Shaw's most sincere visions -- that of his seminal work, "Saint Joan" -- ...

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