Straightlaced Approach to Shaw's Leisure Class Satire (The New York Sun)

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With its idling leisure class obliviously sailing toward obsolescence, George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play "Heartbreak House" owes a clear debt to Chekhov, particularly "The Cherry Orchard." Shaw even called the play "a fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes." Director Robin Lefevre has taken these cues to heart in the Roundabout Theatre's creditable new revival, unspooling Shaw's satire

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