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Buoyant Billions

A Comedy of No Manners

Forbhreathnú

Drámadóir

George Bernard (GB) Shaw
Suíomh

Shortly after the end of the Second World War.
Achoimre

A rich young man on a mission to become a professional "World Betterer" travels to Panama and develops a fascination with an heiress and her unusual family.
Cinéal Dráma

Drámaí Ginearálta

Líon na Míreanna

Dráma Fada

Cast size

Male

9
Female

4
Total

13

Céad Léiriú

Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

13 August 1949
Nótaí faoin Léiriú
Buoyant Billions was first performed in German at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich on the 21st October 1948. The Malvern Festival production listed here was the first time for the play to be presented in English.
Nótaí faoin Ionad

First performed at the Festival Theatre, Malvern.

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe
Mr Secondborn (Dick Buoyant)	Dermot Walsh
Mrs Thirdborn (Mrs Harvey Buoyant)	Peggy Burt
Mrs Secondborn	Sylvia Coleridge
Eudoxia Emily ("Darkie") Buoyant	Jasmine Dee
The Widower ( Tom Buoyant)	Dennis Cannan
Sir Ferdinand Flopper	John Longden
The Chinese Priest	Arthur Hewlett
The Native	Kenneth Mackintosh
Clementina Alexandra Buoyant ("Babzy" or "Clemmy")	Frances Day
Junius Smith	Denholm Elliott
Bastable ("Old Bill") Buoyant	Maitland Moss
Junius' Father	Donald Eccles
Frederick ("Fiffy") Buoyant	Peter Bartlett

Scripteanna Foilsithe

Teideal

The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Volume 7
Bliain

1974
Foilsithe ag

The Bodley Head
Seoladh

England
ISBN

0370106679

Eolas Faoi Chearta

Críoch

All Territories
Cinéal Cearta

All Rights
Teagmháil

Society of Authors
Seoladh

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London
SW10 9SB
England
Guthán

+44 (0)20 7373 6642
Ríomhphost

estates@societyofauthors.org
Suíomh Idirlín

www.societyofauthors.org

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was taken from The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Volume 7.

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