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The Music Cure
and
How He Lied to Her Husband
by
George Bernard Shaw
at the Midtown International Theatre Festival
Stephanie Stone (left) and Lorree True (right) portray
quintessential Shavian women
Although Shaw is acclaimed as one of the greatest English language
playwrights of all time, he is
usually remembered for a mere handful of full-length plays, and the bulk of his
work, and virtually all of his one
act plays are forgotten. It is true that some of the shorter plays do not
achieve the magnitude of his
masterpieces, and, indeed, a few read rather more like polemics than plays,
but there are also some rare gems
hidden in the midst of the torrent of words. Small comic jewels dot the
flood of Shaw's prose, and we have selected these two to present.
-- Jeff Berry, July 2000
The Shaw One Acts were part of the Midtown Internation Theatre Festival, and allowed the Deptford Players to reach out to a larger audience than we had been previously reaching; cross-pollination is one of the great advantages of a festival appearence.
We were reviewed twice, that we know of, and gratified to find that both were favorable.
"a top-flight production of two seldom seen one-act plays." says Julie Halpern of the off-off-Broadway review.
"The Deptford Players seem to know what they are doing," writes Les Gutman of CurtainUp
![[Cast of the Shaw 1 Acts]](./shawcast01.jpg)
