[ LAWRENCE --- George Bernard Shaw's maxim... ]

The Topeka Capital-Journal | November 22, 2002| | Copyright

By Bill Blankenship

The Capital-Journal

LAWRENCE --- George Bernard Shaw's maxim, "Those who can do; those who can't teach," doesn't apply to Dean Bevan.

Bevan, a Shaw expert and emeritus professor of English at Baker University, play a pivotal role in The University Theatre's staging of Shaw's comedy, "You Never Can Tell."

Bevan, whose 10-volume "Concordance to the Plays and Prefaces of George Bernard Shaw" is still used in classroom and libraries 30 years after it was published, will play head waiter Walter Boon, a character called one of the best comic roles in theater.

Bevan also has ...

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