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How He Lied to Her Husband

Forbhreathnú

  • Drámadóir

    George Bernard (GB) Shaw 

  • Suíomh

    A flat on the Cromwell Road, London.

  • Achoimre

    "Nothing in the theatre is staler than the situation of the husband, wife and lover, or the fun of knockabout farce. I have taken both and got an original play out of them, as anybody else can if he will only look about him for his material instead of plagiarizing Othello and the thousand other plays that have proceeded on Othello's romantic assumptions and false point of honour." (Preface, 1904)

  • Cinéal Dráma

    Drámaí Ginearálta

    Líon na Míreanna

    Dráma Fada

    • Cast size

  • Male

    2

  • Female

    1

  • Total

    3

Céad Léiriú

  • Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

    28 February 1905

  • Nótaí faoin Léiriú

    'How He Lied to Her Husband' was first performed as a curtain-raiser at the Berkeley Lyceum, New York on the 26th November 1904. The Royal Court listing given here refers to the play's first full free-standing performance.

  • Nótaí faoin Ionad

    Presented at the Royal Court Theatre, London.

Foireann An Chéad Léirithe
Lover Harley Granville-Barker
Husband A.G. Poulton
Herself Gertrude Kingston

Scripteanna Foilsithe

Eolas Faoi Chearta

Foinse Eolais