The Aug. 17-20 bus trip to the Shaw Festival in cozy, flowery Niagara-on-the-Lake is still available. A major attraction is the hotel, The Prince of Wales, right in the middle of town. The plays are:

• Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband," a comic melodrama of politics and scandal.

• "One Touch of Venus," a musical comedy from Kurt Weill, Ogden Nash and S.J. Perelman

• Bernard Shaw's "The Doctor's Dilemma," a comic debate about ethics, art, love and science.

• Shaw's "John Bull's Other Island," a witty satire of English ideas about the Irish.

• Clare Boothe Luce's "The Women," with 19 actresses playing 43 roles and its scenes set in places where men rarely venture.

• J.M. Barrie's "Half an Hour," an optional comic extra, is about a woman with just that long to change her life.

Another option is a vineyard dinner.

Included are a welcoming dinner, backstage tour and post-show get-together over drinks. The guide is theater critic Chris Rawson, leading this tour for the 30th years.

The price is $1,269 per person, based on double occupancy. The single supplement is $369. A deposit of $500 per person is to be made payable and mailed to Gulliver's Travels, 460 S. Graham St., Pittsburgh, PA 15232-1210; phone 412-441-3131 or, outside Pittsburgh, 1-800-848-4084.

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