‘Shakes Versus Shav’ Film Screening and Q&A – Closing Ceremony: “Shaw Festival – London 2026”

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‘Shakes Versus Shav’ by George Bernard Shaw, Starring Colm Meaney and Derek Jacobi. Plus Q&A - A Short Animated Film (18mins): Followed by Q&A with the Directors Damian Farrell and Gerry Hoban

To mark the closing of the first “Shaw Festival London”, the ICC is delighted to screen the short animated film Shakes Versus Shav”. Spoiler alert – the directors will also be bringing the puppets Shakes and Shav, used in the film with them, so you can meet them up close!!!

Irish documentary maker Gerry Hoban together with Dublin based puppeteer Damian Farrell have co-produced this stunning film based on George Bernard Shaw’s very last published play “Shakes Versus Shav” – a puppet play first seen at the Malvern Festival in 1949. This new madcap puppet film production features the voices of Colm Meaney as George Bernard Shaw, and Derek Jacobi as William Shakespeare and is was released to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the play’s original publication.