Brian Freeland

Seeing a production of Shaw's play Man and Superman at the Bristol Old Vic during the early weeks of his National Service encouraged Brian to consider the theatre as a potential career: three weeks after demobilisation he started work at the London Palladium. Large chunks of the next twenty years were spent touring abroad, usually for the British Council, often with plays by or about G B Shaw.

Wanting something more substantial that might suit Arts and Literary Festivals and Arts Centres Brian has conceived a presentation where he is both narrator and ’player’, adding his memories of touring abroad with Shaw productions to his light-hearted chronicles of the life, the plays, the reviews, the correspondence and the complicated personal relationships of the only man to have been awarded both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize.