Heartbreak House
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Feb 16, 2003
Closed Apr 6, 2003
Opened Feb 16, 2003
Closed Apr 6, 2003
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Life in the eccentric household of mad Captain Shotover teeters precariously upon the edge of disaster in George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House. Romance springs ever eternal but never mutual, and the only stable marriages have the least to do with love. Written during World War I, but withheld by the playwright until after the hostilities ended, the play is a scathing indictment of a world that spawned destruction. To many aficionados, it's Shaw at the top of his game.
There are additional performances on Tuesday February 11 & 18 and March 25 at 7pm. There is no Wednesday performance on April 2. There are no Thursday performances on March 27 or April 3. There are no Saturday matinees on March 1, 8, 15, 22, and April 5. There is an additional Sunday evening performance on February 16 at 7pm.
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If timing is the secret of comedy, then the actors in Gus Kaikkonen's production of George Bernard Shaw's Heartbreak House for the Pearl Theatre Company haven't been entirely let in on the secret. There is so much lax performing here, so many half gestures and missed emotional stresses -- particularly in the first of the play's three acts -- that despair sets in early on the audience's side of the footlights and the comedy-drama's prescient relevance to our own time threatens to go unappreciated.
In the 10-character cast, led by George Morfogen as Captain Shotover, Joanne Camp as Hesione Hushabye, and Rachel Botchan as Ellie Dunn, even the veteran Morfogen
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