Description
Translation of Brecht's classic play, adapted by well-known UK playwright Alistair Beaton. A programme text edition published to coincide with the world premiere of the translation 2009. Produced by the dynamic, physical theatre company Shared Experience, the world premiere was a major UK tour in 2009. Brecht is studied by students of Theatre Studies aged fourteen and upwards and is one of the central figures of modern world drama.
About the Author
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose writing has had a major influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, The Life of Galileo and Mother Courage and her Children. Alistair Beaton is a well-known Scottish writer, whose plays and translations include Feelgood, King of Hearts and Follow My Leader and Max Frisch's The Arsonists. For television, he wrote the award-winning A Very Social Secretary (2005) and the Channel 4 film The Trial of Tony Blair (2007).
Reviews
'an adept new translation by Alistair Beaton' Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 2.10.09 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle, written in 1944 while he was in exile from Germany, gives some epic illumination to socialist ideas about ownership and injustice. But more than that it's a story about love winning out over endemic corruption' Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 2.10.09
Book Information
ISBN 9781408126707
Author Bertolt Brecht
Format Paperback
Page Count 112
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 108g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 9mm