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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

Foinse Eolais

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