The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Caucasian Chalk Circle, The (Der kaukasische Kreidekreis)

    Author: Bertolt Brecht (with Margarete Steffin)

    First Performance: 1948, Northfield, Minnesota; 1954, Berlin

    Published: 1949

    First English Translation: 1948

    Genre: Pol. drama in 6 scenes and a prologue; German prose and some verse

    Setting: USSR collective farm, 1946; and the imaginary province of Grusinia in Georgia, indeterminate period

    Cast: 39m, 11f, extras

Two groups of villagers meet to discuss who has the greater claim on a fertile valley, the goatherds who traditionally owned it or the fruit growers who are improving it with irrigation. The Singer stages a play to illustrate why the valley is to be awarded to the fruit growers. A tyrannous governor is overthrown by his nobles. In her panic to escape, the governor's wife...

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