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Shaw play offers lots of heartbreak but no house in Tim Carroll production

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By Mike Balsom
| ThoroldToday Verified
No doors, no windows, no roof, no rooms, no side tables, no elaborate World War I-era furniture pieces. Just a few simple wooden chairs on a black-and-white checkered carpet. It’s likely the first thing one notices when entering the Shaw Festival’s Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre for a performance of Heartbreak House. After all, with “house” in the title, shouldn’t there be one, or at least part of one?
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Washed Out — NOTL Legion's holiday patio party victim of overnight flood

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By Mike Balsom
| The NOTL Local Verified
Waters from One Mile Creek flooded into the parking lot and then the King Street building during Sunday's storm Branch 124 of the Royal Canadian Legion in Niagara-on-the-Lake was forced to cancel its annual Civic Holiday patio party today when members arrived to find the King Street building virtually unapproachable.
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Shaw play offers lots of heartbreak but no house in Tim Carroll production

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By Mike Balsom
| The NOTL Local Verified
The lone George Bernard Shaw play this season, 'Heartbreak House' strips the playwright's magnificent script right down to the root No doors, no windows, no roof, no rooms, no side tables, no elaborate World War I-era furniture pieces. Just a few simple wooden chairs on a black-and-white checkered carpet. It’s likely the first thing one notices when entering the Shaw Festival’s Jackie Maxwell Studio Theatre for a performance of Heartbreak House.
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