Heartbreak House
Heartbreak House is Shaw at his most amusing, thought-provoking, and touching. On the eve of World War I, the eccentric Captain Shotover’s ship-shaped country manor is the gathering place for an unforgettable group of colorful personalities.
Convened for a weekend party by Hesione, Shotover’s romantically optimistic daughter, the guests — including Hesione’s incorrigibly flirtatious husband Hector, her prodigal sister Lady Utterwood, and Ellie, the heartbroken but pragmatic ingénue — have their proper, upper crust conventions challenged during hilarious and bittersweet squabbles about unrequited love, indispensable hope, ill-fated capitalism, and the hopeless but endearing lunacy of the human race.
Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 2:00pm
Center for the Arts, Thompson Theatre
110 Orchard Road, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19711, USA