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The Apple Cart

A Political Extravaganza

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    George Bernard (GB) Shaw 

  • Suíomh

    The Royal Palace, sometime in the future.

  • Achoimre

    Shaw's 1928 preface describes the play as "a comedy in which a King defeats an attempt by his popularly elected Prime Minister to deprive him of the right to influence public opinion through the press and the platform: in short, to reduce him to a cipher. The King's reply is that rather than be a cipher he will abandon his throne and take his obviously very rosy chance of becoming a popularly elected Prime Minister himself." It is believed that the character of King Magnus may have been based on Shaw himself.

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

    • Cast size

  • Male

    10

  • Female

    5

  • Total

    15

Céad Léiriú

  • Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

    19 August 1929

  • Nótaí faoin Léiriú

    'The Apple Cart' was first produced in Polish at the Teatr Polski in Warsaw in June 1929. The Malvern Festival production listed here was the first performance of the play in English.

  • Nótaí faoin Ionad

    Presented at the Festival Theatre, Malvern.

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe
Mr Vanhattan, the American Ambassador James Carew
Orinthia Edith Evans
Amanda, the Postmistress-General Dorothy Holmes-Gore
Pliny, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Aubrey Mallalieu
Crassus, the Colonial Secretary Julian d'Albie
Nicobar, the Foreign Secretary Clifford Marquand
Balbus, the Home Secretary Frank Moore
Proteus, the Prime Minister Charles Carson
Alice, the Princess Royal Eve Turner
Magnus, King of England Cedric Hardwicke
Boanerges, President of the Board of Trade Matthew Boulton
Sempronius, a private secretary to the King Scott Sunderland
Pamphilius, a private secretary to the King Wallace Evennett
Lysistrata, the Powermistress General Eileen Beldon
Queen Jemima Barbara Everest

Scripteanna Foilsithe

  • Teideal

    The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Volume 6

  • Bliain

    1973

  • Foilsithe ag

    The Bodley Head

  • Seoladh

    England

  • ISBN

    0370102258

  • Teideal

    Plays Political: The Apple Cart; On the Rocks; Geneva

  • Bliain

    1999

  • Foilsithe ag

    Penguin

  • Seoladh

    80 Strand Street
    London WC2R 0RL
    England

  • Ríomhphost

    customer.services@penguin.co.uk

  • Suíomh Idirlín

    www.penguin.co.uk

  • ISBN

    978-0140450309

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The information for this entry was taken from The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Volume 6.