Written by Maxwell Anderson Original language English First performance 5 March 1933 Awards Pulitzer Prize for Drama | Date premiered March 6, 1933 Genre Drama Playwright Maxwell Anderson | |
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Place premiered Royale Theatre
New York City, New York Setting Cannon House Office Building Places premiered The Shubert Organization, New York City Similar Maxwell Anderson plays, Dramas | ||
Both Your Houses is a 1933 play written by American playwright Maxwell Anderson. It was produced by the Theatre Guild and staged by Worthington Miner with scenic design by Arthur P. Segal. It opened at the Royale Theatre on March 5, 1933 and ran for 72 performances closing May 6, 1933. It was awarded the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and included in Burns Mantle's The Best Plays of 1932–1933.
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The title is an allusion to Mercutio's line "a plague on both your houses", in Romeo and Juliet.
Reception
Reviewing a 1992 production, Variety described Houses as reminiscent of — but "far more bleak and despairing than" — Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Born Yesterday, calling it "bitter" and "cynical", and assessing the play's message as "heavy-handed" and its characters as "tend(ing) to two-dimensionality."