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Malvern Festival". Shaw, a resident of Malvern. also regularly enjoyed watching theatrical productions by other playwrights for pleasure. The first Malvern Drama Festival took place for a fortnight from 19 August 1929, and was organised by
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Malvern, then known as the Promenade Gardens, with the idea of building a centre of the arts in the town. Funding was raised by a company dedicated to building the theatre, and 200 shares amounting to £5 each were allotted. The foundation stone of the
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Over its history the theatre and festival has closed several times, including during World War II, in the early 1960s, in the early 1970s, and in the late 1990s when a new complex was built with an 850-seat
Festival Theatre, a Forum Theatre, a 400-seat cinema, and a bar and restaurant.
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In 1986, Elgar's music still formed a major part of the annual music festival, with venues aside from the then 800-seat festival theatre being
Malvern Winter Gardens (900 seats), Great Malvern Priory (600 seats), Martin Rogers Theatre (450 seats), and
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presided over the opening ceremony of the first summer season, and under director John Ridley, the
Festival opened on 8 July and ran until 2 October. A production of Priestley's
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would be a
Malvern Festival in 1949. In 1956 Malvern held a Shaw centenary week. However, for a few years up until 1965, the festival theatre lapsed.
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productions in the 1930s. Michael W. Pharand considers the friendship and artistic relationship between
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Jackson and dedicated to Bernard Shaw. The English première of
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