11 FEBRUARY 1955, Page 28

Theatrical Companion to Shaw. By Raymond

Mander and Joe Mitchenson. (Rocklift, 42s.) Winn' Shaw play had the longeft run and which the shortest? Which of his full-length plays has never been publicly performed in the West End of London? Which had their first performances at South Shields, at Newcastle- on-Tyne, Liverpool. Croydon and Vienna? Who first put on O'Flaherty V.C. and where? A Shaw quiz of this kind. a very long one indeed, could be composed from and answered by the best work, so far, of a remarkable pair of theatrical collectors and the only thing of its kind ever attempted on the plays of Shaw. It gives the casts of all the first productions and of the London revivals and there is almost as