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Interviewing British dramatist-novelist Michael Frayn.
"George Bernard Shaw: My Astonishing Life" is a one-man show starring Donal Donnelly. As Donnelly said there wasn't enough time during the play to portray all parts of Shaw's history and experiences. Shaw was against all war, explained Donelly, because not only of the lives lost but no one knew what great doctors, or lawyers, or writers could have been, had those men not lost their lives. There are also two excerpts from a BBC recording in 1937 of George Bernard Shaw.
His total love for the theatre began when Alan Ayckbourn worked backstage, and then worked the lights. He eventually began writing plays. To date, he has written 47 of them. Ayckbourn admits that his plays may be dark but he explained that he tries to add some humor into them, too. When writing a play, and without any notes, Ayckbourn said, he'll take four or five days to write out an entire play on a word processor.