We accept PayPal, Visa & Mastercard
through our secure checkout.
|
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
|
Author: Bertolt Brecht Translated by: Eric Bentley Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 136 Pub. Date: 1998 ISBN-10: 0816635285 ISBN-13: 9780816635283 Cast Size: 14 female, 39 male, plus 4 any gender
|
About
the Play:
HARD TO FIND BOOK, only a very limited number of copies are still available.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a full-length drama by
Bertolt Brecht, translated by Eric Bentley. A
peasant girl steals a baby to raise and ultimately becomes a better
parent than the child's birth parents, in one of Bertolt
Brecht's most frequently
performed plays.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a parable inspired by the
Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written when
Bertolt Brecht was
living in exile in the U.S. during World War II, the story is
set in the Causasus Mountains of Georgia, and retells the tale of
King Solomon and a child claimed by two mothers. A chalk circle is
metaphorically drawn around a society misdirected by its priorities.
Bertolt Brecht's statements about class are cloaked in the
innocence of a fable that whispers insistently to the audience.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle received
its first production in the spring of 1948 when Eric
Bentley's English translation
premiered at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. The play
would not be presented in the original German until 1954, when
Bertolt Brecht
himself produced it with his Berliner Ensemble. Successful runs in
Paris, London, and Moscow followed, and the play finally received its
promised Broadway production in 1966.
Cast: 14 female, 39 male, plus 4 any gender
About the Playwright:
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. One of the most
influential playwrights of the 20th century, he left Germany in 1933
when Hitler came to power. He lived in the United States for seven
years, settling with his family in Santa Monica and New York and
continuing to work on plays and films. After the war he
returned to Germany, where he
founded the Berliner Ensemble. He is best known for his classic plays
The Threepenny Opera, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her
Children, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle as
well as many others.
Eric Bentley (1916-2020) was a British-born American drama
critic and translator. He received his BA at Oxford University and
PhD at Yale University. In 2006, he received an Obie award for
lifetime achievement. Throughout his long and distinguished career,
he was perhaps best known as one of the preeminent experts on Bertolt
Brecht.
|
|
|
|