Delaware resident and seasoned performer Joe Plummer will bring his portrayal of George Bernard Shaw to the Lewes Public Library at 7 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 19, with plenty of humor, plus a sprinkling of saints and devils.
Besides being the best English playwright since Shakespeare, Shaw is generally regarded as the most trenchant pamphleteer since Jonathan Swift, the best theatre critic of his generation, a prodigious lecturer and essayist on politics, religion and society, possibly the most prolific letter writer in literature and a militant vegetarian before it was fashionable.
He was the most controversial literary figure of his age and the scourge of Victorian values and middle-class pretensions. His voice speaks today with a unique resonance.
Plummer has appeared in two off-Broadway productions, and at more than 20 Delaware libraries as Shaw, Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare. He performed as Shakespeare at the Delaware Chatauqua in Lewes last June.
In period costume, Plummer brings Shaw’s life and work alive, with lots of selections from the work, performed by his daughter Therese Plummer, who has recently appeared on “Law and Order” and “The Good Wife.”
For more information, call the library at 302-645-2733.
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