Baal
Baal Author: Bertolt Brecht
First Performance: 1923, Vienna
Published: 1922; rev. 1955
First English Translation: 1964
Genre: Drama in 22 scenes; German prose and songs
Setting: Central Europe, 1920s
Cast: 18m, 12f, extras
Baal is a dissolute wandering poet who plays his guitar and sings in bars and cheap clubs. His coarse ugly exterior and ambivalent sexuality do not prevent him from seducing a number of women, including the 17-year-old girlfriend of an admirer, the wife of his patron, and a girl he encounters in the street, who falls in love with him and is abandoned when she becomes pregnant. She commits suicide, but this hardly affects Baal, who continues to drink, sing his songs, and extol nature. His travelling companion Ekart, with whom Baal is in love, is appalled by Baal's...
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