THE BASICS: Bernard Shaw’s wild and woolly take on this ancient, well known tale has been adapted by the Shaw’s new Artistic Director, Tim Carroll (and to some extent, the whole ensemble of fourteen), ...

Playwright James Englehardt remembers reading Aesop’s fable about Androcles, who removes a thorn from a lion’s paw and is rewarded for his kindness, as a child and wondering who the slave was and why ...

Tim Carroll, the new artistic director of the Shaw Festival, likes to be called TC, but I've taken to calling him Pastor Tim, after the Christian minister whose chipper demeanour baffles the dour ...

Androcles and the Lion is one of George Bernard Shaw's shortest, simplest and most peculiar works. Described as a "fable play," it mixes childlike parable with Shavian dialectic. A.D. Players' staging ...

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Aesop’s Fables or Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, who was a slave and a storyteller. He is believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. This is a story from ...

BBC Radio 4 Extra marks the 160th anniversary of the birth of George Bernard Shaw with one of his plays from 1912. Androcles and the Lion began as a play aimed at children but went on to become a ...

Natural phenomena and man-made disturbances, in the form of rain and low flying airplanes, are not the perfect adjuncts to a dramatic performance. In spite of these hindrances, however, the Group 20 ...

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