Days of the Commune

Days of the Commune (Die Tage der Commune)

    Author: Bertolt Brecht (with Margarete Steffin)

    Date Written: 1948–9

    First Performance: 1956, Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz)

    Published: 1957

    First English Translation: 1971

    Genre: Drama in 14 scenes; German prose

    Setting: Paris and Versailles, 1871

    Cast: 42m, 12f, 2 children

The rise and fall of the Paris Commune, established in the aftermath of France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1, is observed and debated by a motley group in and near a Montmartre café. A bourgeois complains that the war has destroyed opportunity for profit, while the workers and intellectuals are more concerned with oppression from their own authorities. When President Alphonse Thiers and his right-wing National Assembly at Versailles...

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