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	Theatre Review: Heartbreak House- Show Business Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Heartbreak House, Shaw's witty 1919 satire about the folly of the European leisure class and its tendency to turn a blind eye to the pending World War.
		Heartbreak House resembles a typical Edwardian period-play, where characters are more concerned with leisure activities and social climbing than serious interests.
		Heartbreak House — after many punchlines have been delivered and the tediousness of the characters’ arguments has peaked — does this impending doom surface in the form of air bombs.
	www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/407/HeartbreakHouse.shtml (440 words)

	Heartbreak House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Heartbreak House was written by George Bernard Shaw in 1919.
		The house could arguably be a metaphorical reference to a ship which must be guided capably, not only by its crew, but also its passengers.
		Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heartbreak_House (501 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews - "Heartbreak House" - 8/17/06
		Long gone from the house is his other daughter, Ariadne Utterwood, a woman of the world married to the rather nebbishy Randall.
		Ariadne is rather aghast at the tepid homecoming welcome she receives, especially when a beguiling outsider friend of her sister, Ellie Dunn, is welcomed with open arms on her rival with her clueless father and fiancee of convenience Alfred Mangan in tow.
		Christopher Akerlind's set for the house itself is quite an eyeful of a nautical theme gone wild, but the outdoor setting for act three is less impressive.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/seattle/se302.html (566 words)

	Case Western Reserve University
		Heartbreak House is a moving and comic jewel about a ship-shaped country manor that houses a collection of bohemian eccentrics led by the ancient Captain Shotover.
		On the eve of WWI, he must not only navigate the looming storms of Europe, but also the "war at home." Find out why this comedy is still one of Shaw's most popular and shockingly relevant pieces.
		Mee uses these lofty ideas to address the silliness of the human condition through a wildly and entertaining theatrical romp that will be sure to push any envelope.
	www.case.edu /artsci/thtr/conservatory.htm (236 words)

	Heartbreak House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He is immediately bewitched by her, and he's not the only one: Lady Utterword's sniveling brother-in-law, Randall, has followed her to the Shotover house, intent on declaring his love for her.
		Director Robin Lefevre endows Heartbreak House with the loony energy of an old-fashioned, door-slamming farce, which his expert cast is mostly up to the task of embodying.
		Heartbreak House is a play that tries to cover a lot of ground, and is not always successful.
	www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/hear3852.htm (881 words)

	Heartbreak House, Drama, Broadway Review, American Airlines Theatre, New York Theatre Guide - Online
		Set in a country house populated by a bunch of recognizable “types”, Shaw’s work has many parallels with Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard but little of the Russian play’s compassion.
		Instead of spending time with a group of souls whose world is falling apart, you come away from Shaw’s work having spent an evening filled with clever witticisms uttered by a bunch of characters who are both vapid and nasty.
		MICHAEL KUCHWARA of ASSOCIATED PRESS says ""This house is full of surprises for them that don't know our ways," says an elderly servant to a young woman making her first visit to the country home of the eccentric, seafaring Captain Shotover and his bohemian brood.
	www.newyorktheatreguide.com /reviews/heartbreakhouse06.htm (860 words)

	Heartbreak House Tickets - Buy Heartbreak House Tickets
		Heartbreak House is a play in three acts by George Bernard Shaw, published in 1919 and produced in 1920.
		The house in the play could arguably be a metaphorical reference to a ship which must be guided capably, not only by its crew, but also its passengers.
		The contrast between Mazzini Dunn and his employer 'Boss' Mangan is used by Shaw to illustrate society in England and Continental Europe followed the lead of those not capable of properly leading.
	www.showtimetickets.com /theatre/heartbreak-house.jsp (321 words)

	Heartbreak House - George Bernard Shaw - Penguin Classics
		When Ellie Dunn joins a house-party at the home of the eccentric Captain Shotover, she causes a stir with her decision to marry for money rather than love, and the Captain's forthright daughter Hesione protests vigorously against the pragmatic young woman's choice.
		Written between 1916 and 1917 as war raged across Europe, Heartbreak House is a telling indictment of the generation responsible for the First World War.
		With its bold combination of high farce and bitter tragedy, Shaw's play remains an uncannily prophetic depiction of a society on the threshold of an abrupt awakening.
	us.penguinclassics.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780140437874,00.html (144 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Review: Heartbreak House
		Shaw even subtitled Heartbreak House "A fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes," not only acknowledging Anton Chekhov's masterpiece in the composition of his scenario, his characters, and the fates for which they're all inexorably headed, but in a lengthy introduction in the play's published text.
		Well, not technically: He's billed as Captain Shotover, the house's deceptively mad magnate, but as costumed by Jane Greenwood and wigged up by Tom Watson, he's the spitting image for Shaw, whose own acerbic philosophies are said to have informed Shotover.
		But no one else onstage is more dramatic than they are comic: They tend to wander about and speak their lines as if waiting for laughs that never come, or expecting deep meaning to drop from the sky like the Zeppelin attack that changes everything (and nothing) in the third act.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /world/HeartbreakHouse.html (752 words)

	Heartbreak House, a CurtainUp review
		Spending his time inventing both metaphysical and real doomsday weapons, while alternately insulting his house guests with a shower of nasty bon mots, the old sea dog’s eccentricities are made all the more delicious by Bosco’s inimitable croaking delivery.
		Heartbreak House is filled with often explosively funny dialogue and this cast uses their resources to make them all resound smartly on route to the climactic and seriously intended "big bang" finale.
		Reviews of both previously seen productions (wich ran a merciful fifteen minutes shorter) are in our archives: Heartbreak House at the Pearl Theater and Heartbreak House at the Berkshire Theatre Festival.
	www.curtainup.com /heartbreakhousebroadway.html (770 words)

	Heartbreak House - Adobe Reader PDF eBook - Get eBooks!
		Heartbreak House is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface.
		Tolstoy was no pessimist: he was not disposed to leave the house standing if he could bring it down about the ears of its pretty and amiable voluptuaries; and he wielded the pickaxe with a will.
		He treated the case of the inmates as one of opium poisoning, to be dealt with by seizing the patients roughly and exercising them violently until they were broad awake.
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/116438-ebook.htm (837 words)

	George Bernard Shaw's play: Heartbreak House (A comedy)
		Review/comment: Shaw is so clever and there are some very funny lines and biting banter, but this has got to be one of the silliest and pointless plays in his (and he's had a few others) or any great playwright's repertoire.
		I've seen "Heartbreak House" described as a play with an anti-war theme, but I could find no such animal lurking among any of the nine characters.
		The only thing approaching a war was that waged between the sexes, which was hardly on a level playing field -- the men were mere puttin in the hands of the conniving, manipulative, shrewd women.
	www.readbookonline.net /title/65 (264 words)

	The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis: 2006–2007 Season: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On the eve of World War I in cultured, leisured Europe, Captain Shotover's ship-shape English manor houses a collection of bohemian eccentrics for a weekend gathering planned by his optimistically romantic daughter.
		While bombs begin to rain down upon the garden, sparks fly among the guests, as they play out their petty deceptions and grand philosophies oblivious to the momentous changes on the horizon.
		Heartbreak House is performed on the Browning Mainstage at the Loretto-Hilton Center, 130 Edgar Road, Webster Groves.
	www.repstl.org /season/show/heartbreak_house (455 words)

	INTIMAN Theatre,IntiBlog
		Over the next week I’ll be giving you all a little peek into the behind-the-scenes madness of the final leg of the rehearsal process leading up to opening night that is known as tech and previews.
		Right up until the arrival of the actors onstage the theatre is a flurry of activity as the stage crew swarms about adding more detail to the set, removing ladders, sweeping up debris and generally preparing the space to be useable.
		Even though the strange world of Heartbreak House is beginning to take shape inside the theatre, many things are yet to be added and will continue to be modified and perfected right up until opening night.
	www.intiman.org /blog/dc1.html (500 words)

	Heartbreak House - Theater - Review - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I’d like to suggest the American electorate consider the merits of Captain Shotover, the straight-talking old salt currently and eternally presiding over “Heartbreak House,” George Bernard Shaw’s comedy about British gentry waltzing toward the apocalypse.
		And he’s not beholden to big business types, whom he colorfully refers to as “those hogs to whom the universe is nothing but a machine for greasing their bristles and filling their snouts.” Which reminds me: He already has a crack speechwriter on staff.
		It is a mad house but there was not enough madness.
	theater2.nytimes.com /2006/10/12/theater/reviews/12hous.html (1042 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Heartbreak House
		Staging Shaw well is never straightforward, and doing right by "Heartbreak House," the playwright's indictment of the complacent leisure class he felt was driving Europe toward its ruin, is especially tricky.
		Puttering around his house in the Sussex countryside, Shotover sighs at the "foolish lives of romance and sentiment" being pursued by his family, and at the "money and comfort and hard common sense" sought by the younger generation.
		Having spent his best years seeking danger and adventure, the soulfulness of the character is in his reluctance to abandon himself in his old age to "the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing."
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117931831.html?categoryid=33&cs=1&nid=2562 (1031 words)

	Heartbreak House Review Roundup (BroadwayWorld.com)
		George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House" is one of those classic plays that promises more than it delivers - but rarely has it delivered so little as it did last night at the American Airlines Theatre in an oddly flaccid staging by the Roundabout Theatre Company.
		Despite all the wit, an undercurrent of sadness snakes through "Heartbreak House," particularly in the play's elegiac third act.
		David Rooney for Variety writes that "Staging Shaw well is never straightforward, and doing right by "Heartbreak House," the playwright's indictment of the complacent leisure class he felt was driving Europe toward its ruin, is especially tricky.
	www.broadwayworld.com /blogs/viewblog.cfm?blogid=1512 (784 words)

	Heartbreak House Tickets \| Heartbreak House Information on Broadway.com
		George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House, ranks as a comic masterpiece, and its portrait of an English family sitting idle on the brink of World War I makes the play as timely to modern audiences as it is entertaining.
		On one level, Heartbreak House follows the unlikely romantic encounters that occur on an estate in the English countryside presided over by an elderly patriarch, Captain Shotover (Philip Bosco).
		Bosco is widely recognizable from his film and television roles, but that work has been a sidebar to a dedicated career on the stage, which was first given notice for his performance in The Rape of the Belt in 1960.
	www.broadway.com /gen/show.aspx?SI=534587 (351 words)

	Full House: The Heartbreak Kid - TV.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		After Steve and Michelle got 'married', Steve said that he had to go home because his mom was cooking meat loaf.
		This is the third time a phony wedding to a Tanner sister is seen.
		If you look closely at Jesse's computer screen after Stephanie brings up his report, you'll see that he was doing a report on "The Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller.
	www.tv.com /full-house/the-heartbreak-kid/episode/47465/summary.html (332 words)

	Heartbreak House: review on TheaterMania.com
		The highly respected commentator Stark Young once thought it the best of Shaw's plays but, in response to the Mercury Theatre's 1938 revival, decided instead that it was "garrulous, unfelt and tiresome." Absorbing it now, a spectator wavers from minute to minute between Young's extremes.
		The situations involving the figures gathered in this house of present and impending heartbreak don't convincingly cohere into a satisfying dramatic whole.
		The glory of Lefevre's treatment is that he plays up the work's pluses so effectively that the minuses are all but completely banished to the shadows.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/9194 (778 words)

	Heartbreak house
		I`ve done two versions of Shaw`s Heartbreak House.
		The Scenic Design for G.B. Shaw's Heartbreak House was my thesis production at the University of Texas at Austin.
		This rendering of Act I and the rendering of Act III have been in several design exhibits, including "Design Texas" sponsored by the Texas Section of USITT where it was awarded the Design Excellence Award by judges Bill and Jean Eckart.
	www.hillmardesign.com /bus/showpg/hh/HH.shtml (346 words)

	Amazon.com: Heartbreak House: DVD: John Gielgud,Lesley-Anne Down,Siân Phillips,Barbara Murray (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Heavily influenced by the Russian playwright Chekov, Heartbreak House lacks the vigorous plotting that drives most of Shaw's best plays; without that narrative engine, the speeches cascade over each other a bit amorphously.
		But at heart all of Shaw's plays (which include Pygmalion, on which My Fair Lady was based) are orchestrations of moral debates--not conventional morality, but Shaw's idiosyncratic morals, contrary philosophies, pragmatic spiritualities...if the word 'iconoclast' had not existed, someone would have had to invent it to describe Shaw.
		This rollicking romp through the minefields of romantic entanglement takes place on the Sussex estate of Captain Shotover, an eccentric poet, retired seafarer and inventor who is reluctantly hosting a weekend house party for his two daughters and their bohemian friends.
	www.amazon.com /Heartbreak-House-John-Gielgud/dp/B000E8JNQK (807 words)

	Heartbreak House at the Colony Theatre: Review
		Many worse things than George Bernard Shaw could have imagined have happened in this century since he wrote the gently apocalyptic reverie Heartbreak House in the aftermath of World War I. Bombs far greater than the ones that land at the play’s end not far from the fictional
		But as despairing as this century might make Shaw - or us, for that matter - as long as there are Heartbreak revivals as glittering, piercing, and ruefully funny as the one now at the Colony, there is still some hope for civilization.
		Whatever real heartbreaks we’ve seen outside the theatre walls in this century, onstage it’s a Shavian world, after all.
	www.colonytheatre.org /shows/reviews/HeartbreakHouseReview.html (313 words)

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	Heartbreak House
		Currently, there are not enough Tomatometer critic reviews for Heartbreak House to receive a rating.
		To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of famous Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, Warner Home Video is releasing film and television versions of Shaw's plays.
		In HEARTBREAK HOUSE, retired British naval officer Captain Shotover tries to maintain control of his household as his two daughters flirt with their young friends.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1157322-heartbreak_house (284 words)

	Heartbreak House tickets - Heartbreak House information - New York
		Roundabout Theatre Company presents George Bernard Shaw's drama Heartbreak House, directed by Robin Lefevre.
		The cast includes Philip Bosco, Swoosie Kurtz, Byron Jennings, Lily Rabe, and Laila Robins.
		Buy Heartbreak House t-shirts, posters, CDs, souvenirs and more.
	www.theatermania.com /content/show.cfm/show/122943 (229 words)

	INTIMAN Theatre: Heartbreak House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An affectionate, Chekhovian portrait of life before World War I, Heartbreak House features some of the most delightful characters ever put on a stage.
		Blazingly intelligent, sensual and witty, it is a perfectly realized joining together of ideas, entertainment and deep feeling.
		"Director finds lessons for modern souls in Shaw's 90-year-old 'Heartbreak House' "
	www.intiman.org /plays/house.html (54 words)

	Playbill News: PHOTO CALL: Heartbreak House
		Philip Bosco, Swoosie Kurtz, Byron Jennings, Lily Rabe and Laila Robins star in the Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House.
		Penned by Shaw, Heartbreak House follows "the unlikely romantic encounters that occur in an estate on the English countryside."
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	www.playbill.com /news/article/102458.html (436 words)

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