Word: heartbreaking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final performance of Heartbreak House will be given tonight at 8:30 p.m. at Agassiz. Tickets are on sale at the Coop and at the door...
Certainly, however, East House does little to enhance Shaw's long, difficult, and extremely complex drama. Heartbreak House consists of one part cheerful irrelevancies, one part the disillusionment of Ellie Dunn, and one part allegory. Most of the time, the irrelevancies are wound around Ellie's awakening and her spiritual marriage to Captain Shotover. At selected intervals, however, the script in effect announces, "And now--back to our allegory." The transitions are strained at best, and the East House production does not ease them much...
Owing to the sudden illness of the leading actress, last night's opening of East House's production of heartbreak House was postponed. The play will be held tonight, Saturday, and Monday at 8:30 p.m. in Agassiz Theatre...
Misalliance, by George Bernard Shaw. Halfway to Heartbreak House but twice as blithesome and half as apocalyptic, this 1910 play gives the Edwardian British upper classes the chance to talk their heads...
...school, a fast-driving, wild-boozing, hard-gambling skeesicks who goes snuffling after every girl in town, including the parson's daughter. She rejects his propositions in horror, but in the ironic conclusion she comes tenderly round to his way of thinking, only to discover in horror and heartbreak that he has come round to hers...