Buoyant Billions

Buoyant Billions
1949 edition with designs by Clare Winsten
Written byGeorge Bernard Shaw
Date premiered21 October 1948
Place premieredSchauspielhaus Zürich
Original languageEnglish
SubjectA billionaire's daughter meets a world betterer
Genrecomedy
SettingPanama; London

Buoyant Billions (1948) is a play by George Bernard Shaw. Written at the age of 92, it was his last full-length play. Subtitled "a comedy of no manners", the play is about a brash young man courting the daughter of an elderly billionaire, who is pondering how to dispose of his wealth after his death, a subject that was preoccupying Shaw himself at the time.