Schweyk in the Second World War

Schweyk in the Second World War (Schweik im zweiten Weltkrieg)

    Author: Bertolt Brecht

    Date Written: 1941–4

    First Performance: 1957, Warsaw

    Published: 1957

    First English Translation: 1976

    Genre: Com. in 8 scenes, prologue, interludes, and epilogue; German prose and songs

    Setting: Prague and the Russian front, 1942–3

    Cast: 12m, 3f

Schweyk is a patriotic Czech who deals in dogs in occupied Prague. He spends much of his time in a bar run by an attractive widow, where, feigning simple-minded obedience to authority, he entertains his patriotic comrades by making fools of the German officers who drop by. Whatever scrape he gets into, he manages eventually to talk his way out of it, whether it is arrest by the Gestapo, enforced labour with a ‘Voluntary’ German...

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