![]() ![]() Ellie intends to marry businessman Boss Mangan, but she really loves a man she met in the National Gallery. ![]() His last invention, a lifeboat, did not bring in much cash. Shotover needs to invent a weapon of mass destruction. Hesione says they are running out of money. Lady Utterword, Shotover's other daughter, arrives from Australia, but he pretends not to recognise her. ![]() The house is built in the shape of the stern of a ship. Geraldine Fitzgerald and Orson Welles in the 1938 Mercury Theatre production Įllie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties, to be held at the house of her father, the eccentric Captain Shotover, an inventor in his late eighties who is trying to create a "psychic ray" that will destroy dynamite. The "Russian manner" of the subtitle refers to the style of Anton Chekhov, which Shaw adapts. ![]() Ward, the work argues that "cultured, leisured Europe" was drifting toward destruction, and that "Those in a position to guide Europe to safety failed to learn their proper business of political navigation". Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes is a play written by George Bernard Shaw, first published in 1919 and first played at the Garrick Theatre in November 1920. A dinner party at an eccentric household during World War I ![]()
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