Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House Author: George Bernard Shaw
Date Written: 1913–19
First Performance: 1920, New York
Published: 1919
Genre: Drama in 3 acts
Setting: Shotover's home, England, the future
Cast: 6m, 4f
Captain Shotover, an eccentric 88-year-old inventor, lives in the country with his daughter Hesione Hushabye and her family. Various visitors arrive: the young Ellie Dunn, destined to marry a rich industrialist, ‘Boss’ Mangan, only because he helped her inept idealistic father Mazzini Dunn; Lady Ariadne Utterword, Hesione's sister, and her weak husband Randall. Hesione's feckless husband Hector flirts with both Ellie and Lady Utterword. When Mangan falls in love with Hesione, he tells Ellie that she need not marry him, since he actually ruined rather than helped her father. However, she...
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