Project Shaw Hosts 'Geneva' Jan.21 with Gaines, Shelley, Irving

Gingold Theatrical Group's Project Shaw presents Geneva by George Bernard Shaw on Monday, January 21 at 7PM at The Players (16 Gramery Park South, 20th between Park and 3rd).  Tickets are $20 available at 212-352-3101 or www.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," explain press notes.

The cast of Geneva features: Bridget Regan (Begonia Brown), Jeremy Webb (The Jew), John Scherer (A Newcomer), Carole Shelley (The Widow), Michael Riedel (A Journalist), Howard Kissel (The Bishop), George S. Irving (Commisar Posky), Peter Flynn (The Secretary), Simon Jones (Sir Orpheus Midlander), Scott Alan Evans (The Betrothed), Boyd Gaines (The Judge), Craig Wroe (Bombardone), John Bolton (Battler), John Martello (General Flanco), Charlotte Moore (Deaconess), and Michael Fiengold (Host). 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