Director Jackie Maxwell Will Discuss Pygmalion Oct. 14
For release: October 12, 2004
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Celebrated director and dramatist Jackie Maxwell will conduct the first University of Memphis faculty Great Books Seminar on George Bernard Show's Pygmalion. The seminar will begin at 3 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, in the faculty lounge, Room 317 of the University Center. Admission is free, but seating is limited. To make reservations, call 678-3550.

Maxwell is in her second season as artistic director of Canada's Shaw Festival. This season she has been directing Pygmalion, which became the basis for the film My Fair Lady. Maxwell has directed Shaw's Candida and the musical Merrily We Roll Along, as well as Susan Coyne's translation of Chekov's The Three Sisters and The Coronation Voyage by Michael Marc Bouchard.

Throughout her varied career in Canada, Maxwell has worked extensively as a freelance director and in program creation at numerous theater companies. Her other credits include Picnic for the Shaw Festival; Dancing at Lughnasa for the Canadian Stage Company; Elisa's Skin, The Four Lives of Marie and The Memory of Water for Tarragon Theatre; and Emily and Johnny Belinda for the Charlottestown Festival.

Born in Belfast, Maxwell studied drama at the University of Manchester. She acted in Ireland and England before moving to Canada in 1978.

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