The Good Person Of SzechwanBloomsbury Publishing, 10.04.2015 - 160 Seiten Brecht's famous parable, written in exile in 1939-41, shows that in an unjust society good can only survive by means of evil. In it, the gods come to earth in search of enough good people to justify their existence. They find Shen Teh, a good-hearted but penniless prostitute, and make her a gift that enables her to set up her own business. But her goodness brings ruin and she must disguise herself as a man in order to muster sufficient ruthlessness to survive. Published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, this edition features an introduction and extensive notes and textual variants. |
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... there in 1948 as one of Brecht's Two Parables for the Theatre it has been closely linked with The Caucasian Chalk Circle . This is not just accidental , for up to a point the two plays share a common ancestry , in that both can be ...
... there in 1948 as one of Brecht's Two Parables for the Theatre it has been closely linked with The Caucasian Chalk Circle . This is not just accidental , for up to a point the two plays share a common ancestry , in that both can be ...
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... there is no evidence of his having discussed them as he did in the case of Galileo . Certainly it was one of the four plays which he thought best suited for American production once he had arrived there , the others being Galileo ...
... there is no evidence of his having discussed them as he did in the case of Galileo . Certainly it was one of the four plays which he thought best suited for American production once he had arrived there , the others being Galileo ...
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... there wanted to produce the script which Brecht had sent them before leaving Europe . This decision came at a crucial turning point in the military fortunes of the Allies , shortly before the victories of Alamein and Stalingrad , and ...
... there wanted to produce the script which Brecht had sent them before leaving Europe . This decision came at a crucial turning point in the military fortunes of the Allies , shortly before the victories of Alamein and Stalingrad , and ...
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... There was just too much to be done , particularly in view of the Ensemble's long drawn - out rehearsals and discussions . But it does seem also that Brecht still regarded The Good Person as an unusually difficult play to deal with , for ...
... There was just too much to be done , particularly in view of the Ensemble's long drawn - out rehearsals and discussions . But it does seem also that Brecht still regarded The Good Person as an unusually difficult play to deal with , for ...
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... There are however ways of blocking some of the dangers against which Brecht warned us : by casting a ' big , powerful ' Shen Teh for instance , or by eliminating the Chinese setting altogether as did Giorgio Strehler , who in his 1981 ...
... There are however ways of blocking some of the dangers against which Brecht warned us : by casting a ' big , powerful ' Shen Teh for instance , or by eliminating the Chinese setting altogether as did Giorgio Strehler , who in his 1981 ...
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200 silver dollars audience back room barber Berliner Ensemble Bertolt Brecht bows Brecht Collected Plays carpenter Caucasian Chalk Circle Chen cheque child Chui comes cousin dear door Enter evil factory family of eight flying Fu's girl give gods goes gone gremlin Gung Gung's hand heard Illustrious interlude Kurt Weill LADY TOBACCO MERCHANT Lao Go laughs leave Li Gung look MI TZU Miss Shen Teh morning Mother Courage NEPHEW OLD WOMAN once opium Pekin Person of Szechwan pilot police POLICEMAN rain rent rice round sacks scene Schan script sell shawl shelves SHIN Shin's Shu Fu Shui Ta's SISTER-IN-LAW smoke someone Song Sun's teahouse Teh's tell there's things Threepenny Opera Tobacco King tobacconist's told turns twisting black unemployed wait WANG Wang's water seller water-seller What's young