The Shaw Society - est.1941

Beautiful Bath. Sold out first show last night. Another 3 chances to see it! @TheatreReviva @mission_theatre

Invented by computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum the world’s 1st ChatBot named ‘ELIZA’, after the character Eliza Doolittle from #BernardShaw’s #Pygmalion. Considered the precursor to modern AI ‘ELIZA’ raised ethical issues as it created the illusion of empathy & understanding

“Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.” George Bernard Shaw . John Bull’s Other Island (1904) #BernardShaw #StPatricksDay #Ireland

Although best known as Private Godfrey in ‘Dad’s Army’ Arnold Ridley was a playwright, he wrote over 30 plays including ‘The Ghost Train’. Invalided out of WW1 as a lance-corporal due to his wounds, he later served in WW2 as a captain & later in the home guard.

Today is Einstein’s Birthday - @NobelPrize Literature laureate Bernard Shaw pays tribute to physics laureate Albert Einstein at a speech at the Savoy Hotel in London, England, 27 October 1930.

HangFire Theatre are touring with a new adaptation of Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’ a satire on identity and class. This classic rags to riches story is at Victoria Wood Theatre Bowness-on-Windermere 13/14 March & @TheOldTownHall 21 March hangfiretheatre.co.uk/productions/py…

10 March 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made the 1st successful telephone call to his lab assistant Thomas A. Watson. 4 years later in London Bernard Shaw aged 24 worked for the Edison Telephone Co. before it merged with the Bell Telephone Co. he was offered promotion but declined

Great to celebrating feisty stage diva MRS PATRICK CAMPBELL, lover of Bernard Shaw & various pekinese today on International Women's day. Here we are in Great Missenden for this afternoon's performance @ShawSoc

Fantastic to perform to a lovely Chartridge audience this afternoon topped off with cuppa & cake. Bouquets to our star diva Alexis Leighton who brings Mrs Patrick Campbell to life so vividly. Looking forward to GREAT MISSENDEN tomorrow @ShawSoc @literarybritain @VictorianWeb

7 March Chartridge Village Hall 2.30pm 8 March Oldham Hall Great Missenden 2.30pm #thingtodoinBucks

‘Not Bloody Likely’ is in #Buckinghamshire this weekend Chartridge Village Hall 7 March and The Oldham Hall 8 March #theatreinthevillages

Still time to see ‘Dear Liar’ @JSTheatre till 7 March. Rachel Pickup and Alan Turkington sparkle as Mrs Patrick Campbell and Bernard Shaw in an exchange of words, wit and affection #JermynStreetTheatre #BernardShaw #greatwriters jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/show/dear-liar/

Dramatist, critic & Nobel Prize winner George Bernard Shaw (pic) wrote the following words in Man & Superman (1905): “Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.” His words were wise then & it’s very clear that they’re even wiser now.

Looking forward to a great evening at the Club for Acts and Actors to watch two films. In the first biographer Michael Holroyd talks to Neil Titley then ‘Shaw’s Corner’ with Dermot Walsh. Finally Neil Titley in conversation with Murray Rosenthal @ShawSoc @OscarWildeUK

Looking forward to another visit to ‘Dear Liar’ @JSTheatre near Piccadilly Circus with a small group from the @ShawSoc to see this moving production that is bringing Bernard Shaw and Mrs Patrick Campbell to life

The story of the playwright Bernard Shaw & the actress Mrs Patrick Campbell deliciously, movingly, marvellously brought to life with two wonderful performances & both heart & style at my favourite small London theatre ⁦@JSTheatre⁩ - catch it if you can. 5 stars.

Our rescheduled ‘Film Evening of Shaw and Shaviana’ - this Thursday 26th February 7.30pm The Club for Acts and Actors with Neil Titley of the @OscarWildeUK and Murray Rosenthal vice-chair of @ShawSoc Contact evelyn@shawsociety.org.uk for details.

Rodin’s ‘The Thinker’ in the @burrellcollect and Alvin Langdon Coburn’s photograph of Bernard Shaw posing as ‘The Thinker’. Both Rodin and Coburn were friends of Shaw. The photograph was never shown in Shaw's lifetime. It shows his mischievous sense of humour

It was the UK’s oldest working cinema Loved by George Bernard Shaw 116 yrs of history in Birmingham Closed for almost 2 yrs because Glenbrook Property want to demolish it for a grotesque 50floor tower And our civic leaders…. Hello? England’s 2nd City? 2nd rate civic pride.

A chance to spend an afternoon with the indomitable Mrs Patrick Campbell - Alexis Leighton in ‘Not Bloody Likely’ by Neil Titley with music by Helen Tierney. March 8th - The Oldham Hall - Great Missenden. Tickets in advance tinyurl.com/39ewa555