Project Shaw presents GENEVA!

Press contact: Shirley Herz Associates 212-221-8466 - Gingold Group 212-355-7823
For release on: Jan 7, 2008

Gingold Theatrical Group's PROJECT SHAW presents
GENEVA
by George Bernard Shaw
MONDAY
JANUARY 21
7PM
@THE PLAYERS
16 Gramercy Park South 
(20th between Park and 3rd)
Tickets $20
212-352-3101
or 
Projectshaw.com
 

It's 1938 and the world is on the brink of World War II. An aristocratic German Jew, who has fled Nazi Germany, arrives in Geneva asking for help. A pretty young secretary (Begonia Brown), left to run the International Committee for Peace office alone, writes a letter to the League of Nations. So begins GENEVA. Eventually, Hitler, Franco and Mussolini all converge on Geneva for a peace trial to state their case. Don't miss this rarely seen comedy from the imagination of the one and only G.B.S.

Cast for GENEVA
Begonia Brown ………….….….. Ms. Bridget Regan
The Jew ……………………….…..Mr. Jeremy Webb
A Newxomer ……………….….…. Mr. John Scherer
The Widow  ………………...….. Ms. Carole Shelley
A Journalist ……………….……..Mr. Michael Riedel
The Bishop ……………………….Mr. Howard Kissel
Commisar Posky ……..........…Mr.George S. Irving
The Secretary …………..…....……  Mr. Peter Flynn
Sir Orpheus Midlander ….…….… Mr. Simon Jones
The Betrothed ………....…… Mr. Scott Alan Evans
The Judge ……………….…...…… Mr. Boyd Gaines
Bombardone …………..…….……… Mr. Craig Wroe
Battler ……………….……………… Mr. John Bolton
General Flanco …….…………….. Mr.John Martello
Deaconess ………….………  Ms. Charlotte Moore
Host ……………… Mr. Michael Fiengold

Produced and directed by David Staller


In addition to PROJECT SHAW, GTG is also producing a new play development program. Named for one of Shaw' inflammatory one-acts, “PRESS CUTTINGS: the new plays” will be produced by David Staller and Peter Flynn. As Shaw was a theater critic before becoming a playwright, all writers are currently on-staff critics or journalists devoted to covering the theater scene. The three writers chosen for the first year's cycle will be David Cote, Jeremy McCarter and Robert Simonson. These plays will be developed in a year-long workshop process. Once their own theatre space is secured, GTG will be presenting a full season including two fully mounted Shaw plays and at least one new play. These plays are to focus on the Shavian precepts involving individual human rights, political and social responsibility and the comic absurdity of daily life. Interested writers should contact Peter Flynn at 212-355-7823 or peterflynn@gingoldgroup.com 

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