Arts Partner: Gingold Theatrical Group
In this new adaptation of Shaw’s infamous WWI play, it’s the first days of the London Blitz of September 1940. With the performance interrupted, the cast and audience have joined together to seek shelter in the theatre’s basement. To entertain the crowd, the cast performs Shaw’s most vital paean to resistance and perseverance against tyranny, Heartbreak House. Inspired by actual events as lived by Hermione Gingold during WWII’s darkest days, this revelatory approach will make Shaw’s masterpiece more timely than ever.
The all-star cast includes Alison Fraser, Jeff Hiller, Tom Hewitt, Kimberly Immanuel, Derek Smith, Raphael Nash Thompson, Lenny Wolpe, and Karen Ziemba. Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal hails this production as ‘one of the finest Shaw stagings of the past decade.’
Heartbreak House, which Shaw began at the beginning of WWI but which was first performed by New York’s famed Theatre Guild in 1920, brings a wildly disparate group of people together in the English countryside over a September weekend to make major decisions about their future. No stone is left unturned as each character is forced to come to terms with his or her past while finding a way to move forward in the face of the coming crisis.
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September 25, 2018
7:30 pm
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