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Television World Theatre presents: Heartbreak House

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by Bernard Shaw
(See above and page 4)

[Photo caption] Hesione Hushabye played by Judy Campbell and Hector Hushabye played by Tony Britton in "Heartbreak House" by Bernard Shaw

It is the eve of the First World War when young Ellie Dunn arrives at Captain Shotover's eccentric house in Sussex with its drawing-room furnished like a ship, and the general air of a lunatic household. It is against this background that Shaw's comic 'fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes' is brilliantly developed.

At 8.0

(Tony Britton appears by permission of British Lion Films, Ltd.)

Contributors

Author:
Bernard Shaw
Designer:
Roy Oxley
Producer:
Michael Barry
Ellie Dunn:
Josephine Stuart
Nurse Guinness:
Marda Vanne
Captain Shotover:
Mark Dignam
Lady Utterword:
Diana Churchill
Hesione Hushabye:
Judy Campbell
Mazzini Dunn:
Colin Keith-Johnston
Hector Hushabye:
Tony Britton
Boss Mangan:
William Mervyn
Randall Utterword:
David Markham
Billy Dunn:
Harold Scott
Source: Radio Times

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