In 'The Beggar', a beggar dares to speak the truth to an emperor when the emperor descends to complain about the smell. It was neither produced nor published during the author's lifetime
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In 'The Beggar', a beggar dares to speak the truth to an emperor when the emperor descends to complain about the smell. It was neither produced nor published during the author's lifetime
When a fisherman's wife is woken up by her drunk husband and his friends, anger and resentments explode. 'The Catch' was neither produced nor published during the author's lifetime
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When a fisherman's wife is woken up by her drunk husband and his friends, anger and resentments explode. 'The Catch' was neither produced nor published during the author's lifetime
'The Days of the Commune' tells the story of the uprising and ultimate failure of the Paris Commune in 1871, a city council in France's capital which based its policies on socialism and proclaimed its right to rule over all of France. It held out for...
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'The Days of the Commune' tells the story of the uprising and ultimate failure of the Paris Commune in 1871, a city council in France's capital which based its policies on socialism and proclaimed its right to rule over all of France. It held out for two months of counter-attack by the regular French army before its final defeat in May, 1871. Brecht's account of the Commune is based on Norwegian playwright Nordahl Grieg's play 'The Defeat'. In his adaptation, Brecht eschews a central protagonist, focusing instead on the Commune as characterised by the people in the street. It was first performed in November 1956, shortly after Brecht's death