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The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Beaton)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  11w, 13m

Bertolt Brecht, Alistair Beaton

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by Bertolt Brecht, in a new translation by by Alistair Beaton

Written by the grand master of storytelling and peopled with vivid and amusing characters, The Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of the greatest plays of the last century. This lively translation by award-winning playwright Alistair Beaton is a fluent ye…

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Beaton)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    11w, 13m
  • Duration
    Duration
    More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptation (Stage & Screen), Period

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Summary
Written by the grand master of storytelling and peopled with vivid and amusing characters, The Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of the greatest plays of the last century. This lively translation by award-winning playwright Alistair Beaton is a fluent yet faithful rendering of Brecht's satirical masterpiece and was first presented by Shared Experience at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, and subsequently the Unicorn Theatre, London, in 2009.
  • Time Period 1940s/WWII
  • Setting Various simple settings
  • Additional Features Play with Music
  • Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)

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Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright, poet and director, was born in Augsburg, Germany in February 1898. He established himself as a playwright during the 1920s and early 1930s with plays such as Baal, Man is Man, The Threepenny Opera and The Mother. In 1933, as Hitler came ...
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Alistair Beaton

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