Bernard Shaw, Director

‘You see madam,’ Bernard Shaw once wrote, ‘I am not a dreamer who doesn’t understand the practical exigencies of the stage. …’ The remark was an understatement: Shaw not only understood the practical aspects of play production; he had a great deal of experience with them as well. For thirty years following the 1894 production of Arms and the Man , which he directed, Shaw staged virtually every production of his own plays in London. Directing plays, he consistently maintained, is as crucial a par