Methuen Drama, 2013

Modern Plays

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Acts: 1, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (40), Female (7), Male (32), Unassigned (1)

...Life of Galileo examines the tension between the pursuit of knowledge and the power of official ideology, and contains one of Brecht’s most human and complex central characters. It was first performed in Zurich in 1943...

Methuen Drama, 1994

World Classics

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Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...As a young university student in Munich, Bertolt Brecht was only a few years away from early success as a playwright when he wrote five one-acts. Of these plays, only one was performed in his lifetime, and none were published until after...

Methuen Drama, 1994

World Classics

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Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (31), Female (9), Male (22), Unassigned (0)

...The classic wandering-poet archetype of the Expressionist movement receives a dark makeover in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal. Brecht’s first full-length play portrays the seductions and manipulations of a dissolute poet with an inexplicable appeal...

Methuen Drama, 2003

World Classics

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Dansen is a pig farmer and a respectable member of the community. His fellow members of the commerce class in the town often meet, to play cards, sign contracts and sort out disagreements; it is a wholly satisfying way of life...

Methuen Drama, 1994

World Classics

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (8), Female (2), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...As a young university student in Munich, Bertolt Brecht was only a few years away from early success as a playwright when he wrote five one-acts. Of these plays, only one was performed in his lifetime, and none were published until after...

Methuen Drama, 1994

World Classics

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Acts: 5, Roles: Total (18), Female (6), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...It has been four years since Anna’s fiancé, Andreas, was declared missing in action in the trenches of World War I. Therefore, she is understandably shocked when he reappears. Andreas discovers that in his absence, Anna has agreed to marry...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Student Editions

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Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (88), Female (25), Male (60), Unassigned (3)

...Brecht's series of 24 interconnected playlets describe what life was like in German households in the 1930s. They dramatize with clinical precision the suspicion and anxiety experienced by ordinary people, particularly Jewish citizens...

Methuen Drama, 1977

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...He Who Says No forms a pair with He Who Says Yes, relating two different versions of a fable about consenting to a cause. The Boy demands to be taken by his teacher on a dangerous journey into the mountains, so that he can bring back...

Methuen Drama, 1977

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...He Who Says Yes forms a pair with He Who Says No, relating two different versions of a fable about consenting to a cause. The Boy demands to be taken by his teacher on a dangerous journey into the mountains, so that he can bring back...

Methuen Drama, 2003

World Classics

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Svendson is an ironmonger who suddenly picks up a new customer; apparently wealthy, and with a healthy desire for Svendson's wares, the customer keeps coming back with orders for iron bars. Still, Svendson's conscience...

Methuen Drama, 1994

World Classics

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (17), Female (4), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...When lumber dealer Shlink meets book clerk George Garga, they immediately conceive an irrational hatred for each other and declare war between themselves. Their fighting engulfs and eventually destroys their families and the people around...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Modern Classics

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Scenes: 31, Roles: Total (46), Female (10), Male (36), Unassigned (0)

...Life of Galileo examines the tension between the pursuit of knowledge and the power of official ideology, and contains one of Brecht’s most human and complex central characters. It was first performed in Zurich in 1943...

Methuen Drama, 1986

Student Editions

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Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (46), Female (10), Male (36), Unassigned (0)

...Life of Galileo examines the tension between the pursuit of knowledge and the power of official ideology, and contains one of Brecht’s most human and complex central characters. It was first performed in Zurich in 1943...

Methuen Drama, 1994

World Classics

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...As a young university student in Munich, Bertolt Brecht was only a few years away from early success as a playwright when he wrote five one-acts. Of these plays, only one was performed in his lifetime, and none were published until after...

Methuen Drama, 1994

World Classics

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (11), Female (2), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...One of Brecht’s earliest works, Man Equals Man underwent many drafts before arriving at the version published here. Originally set in Bavaria, Brecht transposed the action to British India, drawing heavily from Kipling for influence...

Methuen Drama, 1995

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (34), Female (5), Male (29), Unassigned (0)

...This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions, adapting the original rather than offering...

Methuen Drama, 2022

Student Editions

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (27), Female (6), Male (21), Unassigned (0)

...Widely regarded as Brecht's best work, Mother Courage and her Children was written in 1938-9 and received its premiere in Zurich in 1941. Mother Courage - a canteen woman serving with the Swedish Army during the Thirty Years...

Methuen Drama, 1983

Student Editions

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (27), Female (6), Male (21), Unassigned (0)

...Brecht's classic play is here presented with ample scholarly material to aid in the study of this great work. A chronicle play of the Thirty Years War of the seventeenth century, the remarkable Mother Courage follows...

Methuen Drama, 2007

Modern Classics

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Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (23), Female (5), Male (18), Unassigned (0)

...Written in 1940 during Brecht’s brief exile in Finland, Puntila is one of his greatest creations – to be ranked as a character alongside Galileo and Mother Courage. A hard-drinking Finnish landowner, Puntila suffers from a divided...

Methuen Drama, 2007

Modern Classics

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Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (9), Female (2), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is an opera chronicling the development and demise of the ‘paradise city’ of Mahagonny in a series of tableaux capturing the baser aspects of human nature. Three criminals create...