Column 8 [Heartbreak House]

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Title Column 8 [Heartbreak House]
Abstract/Description UNEXPECTED realism crept into the Metropolitan Theatre's presentation of "Heartbreak House" the other night. In one scene of Shaw's comedy, a choleric financier, soothed off to sleep by his young fiancee, who has hypnotic powers, is left slumbering in his chair on-stage for ten minutes or so. On this occasion the financier (James Pratt) actually fell asleep-so soundly that when the time came for him to go through the motions of coming-to, he had to be shaken awake. The other characters filled in with extempore stage business until Pratt was sufficiently awake to realise where he was and remember his next lines.
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Source Sydney Morning Herald, Charles Kemp and John Fairfax, Sydney, NSW, 1842
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Date Issued 31 January 1950
Language English
Citation Column 8 [Heartbreak House], Sydney Morning Herald, 31 January 1950, 1
Data Set AusStage
Resource Identifier 62516