The Heiress

 The Heiress is a timeless New York story of status, society and true cost of love based on the novel, ‘Washington Square’ by Henry James. The play has been appreciated with Tony and Academy Awards so far and with its extended tour schedule this time, is expecting the list of achievements to expand in the same way. The Heiress tickets for the upcoming production of the play are already high in demand.
 
The play from 1940s, The Heiress tells the story of Catherine Sloper, who is living a dull life in New York. Her father, Dr Austin Sloper has a flourishing medical practice and is an influential personality of his region. His town house is well known for being up to date and in a ship shape condition. For this well organized man, his daughter, Catherine is a complete disappointment since she has not emerged as the outgoing, charming and poised woman like her mother has been. Despite of all this, Dr Sloper is quite contended with his life and his house is in order.
 
The play begins with the news of Aunt Lavinia’s arrival, who is decent and simple minded but, a chatterbox.  Her arrival is good news for the young girl, since she will have somebody to spend time with other than her regular knitting material. Her father although lives with her but occupied with work and busy with daily chores shows little in the way of affection to Catherine. Dr Sloper thinks that only by setting up his daughter’s share in his property, he has fulfilled his paternal obligation and there is no other responsibility on him on part of his daughter. The regular and monotonous life of Catherine takes a twist with the introduction of the handsome young boy, Morris. Deprived of love, she looks up to him for filling in the empty spaces in her life with affection and believes that these feelings are mutual. Morris does have a pleasant attitude towards her, but can this be called love? Dr Sloper has a completely different opinion at this. He perceives him nothing more than a callow fortune hunter who is just attracted towards her for a purpose. The differences in opinion breeds contempt in between in the family and the reality remains the point of suspense till the end of the play. Dr Sloper, of experiences stays put on his point of view about Morris and to discourage Catherine from pursuing any relationship further with him, threatens to cuts her off her dowry. This also happens to be a test with a hidden purpose for Morris, who successfully fails it by disappearing from the scene. This threat does not mature into action and out of love for his daughter, Dr Sloper agrees with Catherine in her decision. The reappearance of Morris in the story places a question mark in the minds of not only the characters of the story but also the audiences. But, Catherine, confident about her feelings, takes a decision that surprises everyone instantly. Wondering what is it? You can only find out by being a part of the play.
 
The Heiress has enjoyed a total of 410 successful performances so far. It has been appreciated by critics and credible sources like Entertainment Weekly in words, ‘Best Theatre if 2012’, ‘A Must See’ by Walls Street Journal and ‘The Play has it All’ by New York Post. The play has all the elements that combine together to make it a perfect watch with a purpose. A slight comedy in the beginning gives a light start to the play and as the story proceeds further, the events shape up to add drama to it. The exceptionally talented cast is all set to create magic on stage and mesmerize the audiences with its performances. So get The Heiress tickets as early as possible and be a part of the Broadway hit this season.