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Heartbreak House, perhaps Shaw’s richest and saddest play about the follies of humanity, as rehearsed by the British upper classes in the shivery days before World War I. In this quasi-Chekhovian comedy set at a country house slightly unmoored from the real world, Shaw indicted a culture saturated in false values, its most privileged citizens corrupted by idleness and indifference, content to drift toward the abyss.
With the world seemingly on endless edge these days, and with plenty of Americans feeling disengaged from the circus of our cultural and political dicourse, Shaw’s bracing analysis of a civilization in decline seems more valuable than ever.” — Charles Isherwood, New York Times StarringOPENING CEREMONY
Linda Henning | Richard Herd | Marvin Kaplan Jay Munns | Tom Williams | Jo Anne Worley CAST Leonard Maltin is the Host John Harlan is the Announcer Ed Asner as Boss Mangan Samantha Eggar as Hesione Hushabye Paul Keith as Randall Utterword Norman Lloyd as Captain Shotover Monte Markham as Mazzini Dunn Diane Mercer as Lady Ariadne Utterword Phil Proctor as Billy Dunn Charlotte Rae as Nurse Guiness Charles Shaughnessy as Hector Hushabye Jane Windsor as Ellie Dunn Written by George Bernard Shaw
Produced and Directed by Peggy Webber Production Engineer - Charles Able Sound Effects - Tony Palermo |
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