Caucasian Chalk Circle

wtf is this show? I just heard that my school is doing this play in the upcoming year. Can anyone enlighten me about what this is, and if it is a normal show for a high school to do? i have never before heard of this.

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Really? Apparently, it's very very pro-communist. Which I have absolutely no problem with! But I don't know much else.

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Oh my gosh. Well, there is this very famous and influential. playwright called Bertolt Brecht who lived from 1898 to 1956 and it is one of his most important works. There is a lot of information about him and the play on the internet...
I don't know if it is a 'normal' show for high schools to do, but I don't think it's beyond high school students, although it is a complicated play which would require good actors and a director who knows what to do with Brecht.

Caucasian Chalk Circle is considered by many to be one of the seminal plays of the 20th Century. Here’s some background from Wikipedia…

“The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Der kaukasische Kreidekreis) is one of Bertolt Brecht's most important plays and one of the most regularly performed German plays. It is one of a group of plays written by Brecht during his six-year stay in the United States, and was first staged in May 1948 by students at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

"The play is often regarded as part of the epic theatre (episches Theater) tradition. The motives used in the play are taken from the Bible, Buddhist and Islamic narrations, and the 13th-century Chinese piece Hui Lan Ji by Li-Xing-dao.”

It's not exactly like 3Penny Opera.

The complete summary of the show can be found at the below link.

(The internet is your friend )

Wikipedia on CCC