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The Decision (play) Don Juan (Brecht) Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer; Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer (American premiere) Driving Out a Devil; Drums in the Night; The Duchess of Malfi (Brecht)
The play is composed of 11 scenes in prose and blank verse and 13 songs. Unlike another of Brecht's plays from this period, The Mother, Round Heads and Pointed Heads was addressed to a wide audience, Brecht suggested, and took account of "purely entertainment considerations."
Brecht, in his typical anti-realist style, uses the device of a "play within a play".The "frame" play is set in the Soviet Union around the end of the Second World War.It shows a dispute between two communes, the Collective Fruit Farm Galinsk fruit growing commune and the Collective Goat Farmers, over who is to own and manage an area of farm land after the Nazis have retreated from a village ...
The central theme of the confrontation of the individualistic urges of a strong (male) individual (Fatzer) versus the solidarity to a group is described by Müller as Brecht's immense effort to consolidate the stance of his early plays with the new Marxist approach to the Lehrstücke, as "attrition warfare Brecht against Brecht (=Nietzsche ...
In the current publication, the Arcade edition was translated from Brecht's final revision in 1954 by Gerhard Nellhaus (and by Brecht himself, who made his own English version of the first scene). The Bentley translation is based on public domain material of 1926, many years before Brecht finished revising the play. [5]
Brecht himself translated the term as learning-play, [1] emphasizing the aspect of learning through participation, whereas the German term could be understood as teaching-play. Reiner Steinweg goes so far as to suggest adopting a term coined by the Brazilian avant garde theatre director Zé Celso , Theatre of Discovery , as being even clearer.
The title page of Brecht's play describes it as "a people's play" that is "after stories and a draft play by Hella Wuolijoki." [ 6 ] Brecht began work on his non-Aristotelian version of the story on 2 September and finished a first draft three weeks later. [ 5 ]
Brecht intends to show the coolie as a victim caught in the gears of the merciless logic of class warfare. The play, due to its investigation of class differences between rich and poor, with the poor 'losing out', can be seen as arguing in favor of Brecht's Marxist politics. Brecht wishes to draw attention to the status quo, in which the ...