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Review: Rep faithfully revives 'Heartbreak'.

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From: Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
Date: 20070906
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Byline: Pat Craig

Sep. 6--As you watch, nearly breathless with laughter, you don't think much about the soul tweaking George Bernard Shaw gives you in his "Heartbreak House."

While he wrote the play 90 years ago, in the final years of World War I, the play, getting an elegant and timely revival by Berkeley Rep, remains as fresh and contemporary as it was when the last bits of Victorian innocence were falling away in the trenches of the war to end all wars.

That war, as we painfully realize every decade or so, didn't do anything to end war. And the thrumming of Shaw's ...

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