Shaw Festival

Part 1: The Shaw festival and the show itself. History of Shaw festival and Doherty and Rand Shaw’s works were only sporadically performed before 1962. This changed when lawyer Brian Doherty offered up the idea of having a theatre company attributed to Shaw the way Stratford was to Shakespeare. The company was created as “A salute to shaw” to help give the town a financial boost. In the year of 1962 Doherty was named both artistic director and producer bring the shows ‘Don Juan in Hell’ and ‘Candida’

Over a century ago, when Bernard Shaw wrote The Doctor’s Dilemma in 1906, England’s health care was terrifyingly primitive. If one had the misfortune of falling ill during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, essentially, one had the choice of two treatment options. The sufferer could either turn to the local druggist to purchase an expensive patent medicine, of which the ingredients largely comprised of opiates or alcohol and were consequently addictive; or, the patient could visit

in the way festivals are celebrated” (Obi 136). Festivals and holidays have made a perpetual impact on Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Igbo culture. As time has passed over the years, additional holidays of the Igbo culture are celebrated and traditional aspects of festival celebration have been modernized. Furthermore, some holiday and festival celebrations have altered based on its secular and religious aspects. During Pre-colonial Igbo culture, the foundations of festival and holiday

to the famous music and arts festival, Coachella, a year before the event. This growing festival is the most popular in the United States because it brings all different shapes and sizes of people, celebrities, and influencers together. The festival is ADA compliant and have special sign language interpreters. Each and every person can express themselves through dance, music, or fashion. Despite the cost of the tickets (starting off with $300+), attending this festival will be memorable. You can express

New Orleans, Voodoo Festival is here and the locals are dressed to impress in the most bizarre costumes and makeup for the fun of the greatest weekend of their lives. Tourist along with new comers take selfies with groups of friends around the large white “Voodoo” lettering past the front entrance that has a line wrapped around City Park. Past the shopping stands and mini bars on the way to the stage there are more sculptures from local artist leading the passageway for festival goers. Thousands of

Go with the flow I have been to multiple concerts before but nothing compares to the Resonance Music and Arts Festival, a weekend long camp out of like-minded, motived, music loving individuals. In simpler terms, modern day hippies. These hippies focus more on medication, dancing, and yoga as a way to reach the ultimate state of joy. The people around me, the clothing they wore, the smell of weed that filled the air, and the music that blared through the speakers were all things I will never forget

When traveling East down State street, you will come across Bristol’s famous sign, “BRISTOL; A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE” with bright lights and arrows to point you to Tennessee and Virginia. The sign happens to sit right on the state line dividing Bristol, VA and Bristol, TN. Little do people living outside of Bristol know, is that this great city has a vast history of business, music, art, racing, and food, of course. What most people come here for is for the extremely popular Bristol Motor Speedway

In “The Sun Also Rises”, there is a festival called San Fermin. The festival of San Fermin is a week-long historically rooted celebration. The celebration starts at noon on the 6th of July, and continues until July 14th at midnight. This festival is locally known as Sanfermines and is held in honor of Saint Fermin, the co-patron of Navarre. There are many things that happen during San Fermin from singing and dancing to running with the bull and bull fights. San Fermin has become the most internationally

Hey everyone, I hope everyone is adjusting to the crazy weather lately. A lot of impressive events are going on at Oakton this week. VIVA! Latino/Hispanic Festival is happening tomorrow at 6pm at the Skokie Campus, there will be dancing, music and food with a small three dollar entrance fee. At the Des Plaines Campus tomorrow Black Lives Matter will be interactive panel discussion talking about the history of the Black Lives Matter movement. Admission to this event is free and refreshments will

Australia’s most amazing parks. When visiting Scenic World, you can enjoy the wildlife, phenomenal waterfalls, and beautiful valleys. In October, you will be invited for an exploration in “the Lithgow and Oberon regions”. Every year, there is a music festival which is held in middle of March. People in Lithgow celebrates Yulefest from June 1st to August 31st. Blue Mountain attracts tourists to the mountains by its magnificent cliffs, gorges and mysterious dark sandstone valley a cool green forests of