Heartbreak House
An eighty-eight-year-old former sea captain has built himself a house in Sussex shaped like the after part of a ship, and invents weapons in a back room while his daughters, their husbands and a young woman down for the weekend circle one another. The guest arrives engaged to a much older businessman, and the household sets about undoing that before the first evening is out. Shaw subtitled it a fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes and named Chekhov's country-house plays as the model.
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- influenced by ↑ The Cherry Orchard
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