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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…
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Cast Size
11w, 13m -
Duration
More than 120 minutes (2 hours) -
Subgenre
Adaptation (Stage & Screen), Period
Details
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.
Cast Attributes
- Time Period 1940s/WWII
- Setting Various simple settings
- Additional Features Play with Music
- Duration More than 120 minutes (2 hours)
Licensing & Materials
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Authors
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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