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Heartbroken wrecks.(Theater)(Heartbreak House)(Wrecks)(Theater review)
Moral didacticism, usually of a political bent, is the curse of the contemporary theater and has been for some twenty years. In the hands of a less than subtle director or writer, the audience member's experience is too often that of being lectured to, even pummeled, for his own racism, sexism, hawkishness, or bourgeois values. It's too bad we don't have anyone around now like George Bernard Shaw, who managed to make playgoers scream with laughter while he insulted and humiliated them. But we do have a new production of Shaw's Heartbreak House, courtesy of the Roundabout Theater Company and directed by Robin Lefevre.
Heartbreak House (1919) was politically ...
- Heartbreak House.(Theater review)
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Rooney, David October 12, 2006 700+ words
...Shaw well is never straightforward, and doing fight by "Heartbreak House," the playwright's indictment of the complacent leisure...it and be damned." Greeting the impending catastrophe of World War I with an air of inevitability, Shotover recognizes the...
- "Heartbreak House": Carry On!
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Joe Brown April 10, 1987 700+ words
...boisterous production of Shaw's "Heartbreak House." But though some Shaw purists may...delight. Even in hammiest hands, a "Heartbreak House" shows that when the writing is this...romantic fun-and-games in the Heartbreak House - as these charming characters natter...
- Works of G. B. Shaw: Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on...
- Reference information from: Monarch Notes Shaw, George Bernard January 1, 1963 700+ words
...Bernard Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner...the last act, the inhabitants of Heartbreak House, Ellie's name for this place of...regard for dramatic form. In this, Heartbreak House is another "disquisitory" drama...
- San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Karen D'Souza column: Civilization collapses at...
- Newspaper article from: San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA) September 7, 2007 700+ words
...Souza Sep. 7--The end is nigh. "Heartbreak House" very nearly explodes in the final...and intellectually rigorous, this "Heartbreak House" tickles the funny bone as keenly...Beethoven. The war has arrived. 'Heartbreak House' By George Bernard Shaw mercurynews...
- Shaw's Heartbreak House.(George Bernard Shaw)(Critical Essay)
- The Explicator Cole, David W. September 22, 2003 700+ words
The tone at the end of Shaw's Heartbreak House is shifting and complex. Having just narrowly escaped...really done, or whether she and the eclectic assemblage at Heartbreak House--and the equally eclectic society on our own side of...
- G. B. Shaw's Heartbreak House and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming: comedies of...
- Magazine article from: Comparative Drama Roy, Emil September 22, 2007 700+ words
G. B. Shaw's Heartbreak House (1919) and Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (1965) are two of twentieth-century British dramas premier plays. Shaw's debt...
- Roundabout prepping 'House'.(Roundabout Theater Company starts production of...
- Magazine article from: Daily Variety Rooney, David June 30, 2006 700+ words
...dates and announced full casting for its first Broadway production of the 2006-07 season, George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House." Joining previously announced star Philip Bosco in the revival of Shaw's 1920 Chekhovian drama about a gathering in...
- Heartbreak House, by G. B. Shaw
- Picture from: NYPL Digital Gallery unknown January 1, 1934 700+ words
