You Never Can Tell

George Bernard Shaw

Aug 2015 · L.A. Theatre Works · Narrated by James Callis, Siobhan Hewlett, Christopher Neame, Martin Jarvis, Matthew Wolf, Moira Quirk, Nicholas Hormann, Simon Templeman, and Susan Sullivan

About this audiobook

How many plays start in a dentist’s chair and climax with a wild masquerade party? Shaw’s hilarious comedy of errors involves mistaken identity, tangled courtship, and wise advice from “the perfect waiter.” With a nod to Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Shaw’s You Never Can Tell is a lightning-paced satire of romance and Edwardian society.

Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in May 2015.

Director: Rosalind Ayres Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring: James Callis as Mr. Valentine Siobhán Hewlett as Gloria Nicholas Hormann as Mr. McComas Martin Jarvis as The Waiter Christopher Neame as Mr. Crampton Moira Quirk as Dolly Susan Sullivan as Mrs. Clandon Simon Templeman as Bohun Matthew Wolf as Phillip Associate Producers: Anna Lyse Erikson, Myke Weiskopf Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner

About the author

Renowned literary genius George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. He later moved to London and educated himself at the British Museum while several of his novels were published in small socialist magazines. Shaw later became a music critic for the Star and for the World. He was a drama critic for the Saturday Review and later began to have some of his early plays produced. Shaw wrote the plays Man and Superman, Major Barbara, and Pygmalion, which was later adapted as My Fair Lady in both the musical and film form. He also transformed his works into screenplays for Saint Joan, How He Lied to Her Husband, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, and Major Barbara. Shaw won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925. George Bernard Shaw died on November 2, 1950 at Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England.