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Mother Courage and Her Children is a play by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, completed in 1939 and first performed in Zurich in 1941. Set during the Thirty Years' War, it follows Anna Fierling, known as Mother Courage, a canteen-wagon operator who attempts to profit from the war while her children...
A Berlin theater founded in 1949 by playwright Bertolt Brecht and actress Helene Weigel, established as the institutional home of Brecht's dramatic works.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play by Bertolt Brecht, written in 1944 while he was living in the United States and first staged there in 1948. Framed by a dispute over land, its central story follows Grusha, a servant who rescues and raises an abandoned governor's child during political upheaval....
Life of Galileo is a play by Bertolt Brecht about Galileo Galilei's astronomical research, conflict with Church authority, and eventual recantation under threat from the Inquisition. Brecht produced multiple versions beginning in the late 1930s, revising the work after leaving Europe and again follo...
The Good Person of Szechwan is a parable play by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, written between 1938 and 1941, and first staged in Zurich in 1943. The story centers on Shen Te, a kind-hearted prostitute in the fictional Chinese city of Szechwan who struggles to remain good in a capitalist world. T...
