At the end, we learn that Randall at last "succeeds in keeping the home fires burning on his flute," while an explosion seems to have killed Mangan.
The preface to this work notes that "those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying" and contrasts the title thing to a "prison for horses" named Horseback. At the beginning of the second act, one character notes that macaroni is too rich for him, because he's a man of business and thus is "always thinking." The final scene sees Nurse Guinness warning the characters that they will be summoned by the police if they don't put the light out. At the end, we learn that Randall at last "succeeds in keeping the home fires burning on his flute," while an explosion seems to have killed Mangan. It also features Hesione Hushabye, Ellie Dunn, and the dynamite-obsessed rum fiend who has built the title structure in the shape of a ship, Captain Shotover. For 10 points, name this 1919 play, a "fantasia in the Russian manner on English themes" written by George Bernard Shaw.
The preface to this work notes that "those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying" and contrasts the title thing to a "prison for horses" named Horseback.
Heartbreak House