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Heartbreak House

by George Bernard Shaw

  NOVEMBER 2025
Thursday 20th to Saturday 22nd: Curtain 7:30pm
Erin Arts Centre, Port Erin

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Programme Notes

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In Heartbreak House, Shaw uses eccentric characters, witty dialogue and absurd situations
to create an entertaining and memorable comedy.

The play is about the Hushabye family and their guests,
who gather at Captain Shotover's ship-shaped house for a weekend of emotional turmoil,
romantic entanglements, and social critique on the eve of World War I.

Young Ellie Dunn navigates her engagement to the industrialist Boss Mangan
and her attraction to the deceptive Hector Hushabye,
while the eccentric Captain Shotover tries to invent a weapon of mass destruction.

The play concludes with a bang - literally! - that kills two characters,
leaving the guests and the audience shaken and bemused.

 



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Directed bySarah Lockyer


Cast (in order of appearance)



Nurse Guinness Sharon Roberts
Ellie Dunn
Robyn Hughes
Captain Shotover
Jack Verity
Lady Ariadne Utterworth
Ailsa Harrop
Hesione Hushabye Julia Moon
Mazzini Dunn Barnaby Lockyer
Hector Hushabye
Juan Bridson
Alfred 'Boss' Mangan
Robert Clayton
Randall Utterworth
Steve Blower
Billy Dunn
Steve Jones


Backstage Crew
Prompt
Brian Matthews
Set
Ron Beswick, Ian Galloway, David Leiserach
ProgrammeRon Beswick, Sarah Lockyer
Props & Costume
The Cast
Lights & Sound
Mike Lean, Ron Beswick
Front of House
Brian Matthews
Poster
Adrienne Sanderson, Dave Sherriff
Raffle
Jane & Norman McGregor-Edwards


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