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The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Manheim)
Full-Length Play, Drama / 11w, 38m
Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
By Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Ralph Manheim
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A morality masterpiece, The Caucasian Chalk Circle powerfully demonstrates Brecht's pioneering theatrical techniques.
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Cast Size
11w, 38m -
Duration
90 minutes -
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Summary
A servant girl sacrifices everything to protect a child abandoned in the heat of civil war. Order restored, she is made to confront the boy's biological mother in a legal contest over who deserves to keep him. The comical judge calls on an ancient tradition - the chalk circle - to resolve the dispute. Who wins?
Cast Attributes
- Time Period 1940s/WWII
- Setting Summer 1945
Among the ruins of a Caucasian village, the members of two collective farms - Features Period Costumes
- Duration 90 minutes
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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