‘Heartbreak House’ is a play by George Bernard Shaw. Published in 1919, it first played at Garrick Theater in 1920.
The play begins as Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesion Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties. The party is being held at the house of her eccentric father, Captain Shotover, whose house is built in the shape of the stern of a ship. Captain Stopover is an inventor who is trying to create a sort of “psychic ray” that will destroy dynamite.
‘Major Barbara’ is a three-act English play by George Bernard Shaw, written and premiered in 1905 and first published in 1907. The story concerns an idealistic young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor.
The play explores such themes as morality, gender, war/violence, wealth/poverty, society and class, hypocrisy, power, beliefs.
