The Caucasian Chalk Circle (tr. McGuinness)

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (tr. McGuinness)

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (tr. McGuinness)

Bertolt Brecht, Frank McGuinness

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (tr. McGuinness)

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (tr. McGuinness)

Bertolt Brecht, Frank McGuinness

Overview

In the heat of civil war a mother abandons her son, and the responsibility to rear the child falls upon Grusha, a servant girl. She sacrifices everything in order to respectfully raise the young boy as her own, but when the biological mother returns a debate arises as to who the rightful mother of the boy is. This is a fresh and powerful translation of Brecht's incendiary masterpiece by one of the most respected translators in modern literature.

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Details

  • Genre: Period
  • Time Period: 1940s/WWII
  • Cast Attributes: Reduced Casting (Doubling Possible), Room for Extras

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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Author

Frank McGuinness