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'Ontario's Flourishing Shaw Festival.

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From: World and I
Date: 20001001
Author:HENKIN, STEPHEN

The only such venue exclusively devoted to plays by George Bernard Shaw and his contemporaries, the Shaw Festival at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, has steadily grown from promising yet humble origins into a world-class event.

With a candidness that perhaps best characterizes his acumen and acerbic wit, the great Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw said: "In England, as elsewhere, the spontaneous recognition of really original work begins with a mere handful of people, and propagates itself so slowly that it has become a commonplace to say that genius, demanding bread, is ...

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