The Beggar

Beggar, The (Der Bettler)

    Author: Reinhard Johannes Sorge

    First Performance: 1917, Berlin

    Published: 1912

    First English Translation: 1963

    Genre: Drama in 5 acts; German prose

    Setting: A café, the Poet's home, and other locations, Berlin, 1900s

    Cast: 10m, 3f, extras

Rejecting conventional theatre, the Poet tells his friend that he seeks to dramatize his vision of ‘glorious sublimity’. In a café, frequented by Newspaper-Readers, Critics, Prostitutes, and Airmen, the Poet refuses to compromise his art for the sake of his Patron. He finds himself quite alone, apart from a Young Girl, who, troubled by concern for her illegitimate child, follows him. At his home the Poet (now the Son) confronts his father, a mad engineer who is drawing futuristic plans for a technological utopia. When...

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