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Samuel French, London

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Adapatation/translation

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8

4

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
theme is resistance to oppression, bury your brother and die, with prologue set in Berlin 1945

Unity Theatre, London

1967

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Samuel French, London

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Adapatation/translation

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8

4

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
A prologue set in 1945 Berlin shows two sisters whose brother has deserted from the German army and is found hanged: should they risk being seen by the SS cutting his body down? In the play itself Creon becomes a brutal aggressor, who has attacked Argos for the sake of its iron ore. Tiresias, instead of prophesying the future, becomes a pessimistic analyst of the present; while the chorus of elders, always reserved in its attitude, eventually turns against Creon too.

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Samuel French, NY

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Translation

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variable

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
Baal, a poet and singer, drunk, lazy, selfish and ruthless, seduces (among others) a disciple's seventeen year-old mistress, who drowns herself. He mixes with tramps and drivers and sings in a cheap night-club. With his friend the composer Ekart he wanders through the country, drinking and fighting. Sophie, pregnant by him, follows them and likewise drowns herself. Baal seduces Ekart's mistress, then kills him. Hunted by the police and deserted by the woodcutters, he dies alone in a forest hut.

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Samuel French, NY

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variable

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
Baal, a poet and singer, drunk, lazy, selfish and ruthless, seduces (among others) a disciple's seventeen year-old mistress, who drowns herself. He mixes with tramps and drivers and sings in a cheap night-club. With his friend the composer Ekart he wanders through the country, drinking and fighting. Sophie, pregnant by him, follows them and likewise drowns herself. Baal seduces Ekart's mistress, then kills him. Hunted by the police and deserted by the woodcutters, he dies alone in a forest hut.

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Samuel French, NY

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Translation

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variable

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; 'Written in collaboration with William E Smith

Synopsis:
Baal, a poet and singer, drunk, lazy, selfish and ruthless, seduces (among others) a disciple's seventeen year-old mistress, who drowns herself. He mixes with tramps and drivers and sings in a cheap nightclub. With his friend the composer Ekart he wanders through the country, drinking and fighting. Sophie, pregnant by him, follows them and likewise drowns herself. Baal seduces Ekart's mistress, then kills him. Hunted by the police and deserted by the woodcutters, he dies alone in a forest hut.

New York City

2000

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Translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
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Phoenix, London

1963

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in "Brecht, Bertolt, Collected Plays Vol.1 1918 - 1923" Methuen, London

1970

Translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
Baal, a poet and singer, drunk, lazy, selfish and ruthless, seduces (among others) a disciple's seventeen year-old mistress, who drowns herself. He mixes with tramps and drivers and sings in a cheap nightclub. With his friend the composer Ekart he wanders through the country, drinking and fighting. Sophie, pregnant by him, follows them and likewise drowns herself. Baal seduces Ekart's mistress, then kills him. Hunted by the police and deserted by the woodcutters, he dies alone in a forest hut.

Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London >>>

1971

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

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in "Brecht, Bertolt, Collected Plays Vol.1 1918 - 1923" Methuen, london

1970

Adapatation/translation

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2

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extras

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

Cockpit Theatre, London

1982

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Adapatation/translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
slapstick Commedia dell'Arte farce about mass unemployment

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in "Brecht, Bertolt, Collected Plays Vol.1 1918 - 1923" Methuen, london

1970

Adapatation/translation

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10

2

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

The Scoop, London

2006

Steam Industry

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Play

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1

1

extras

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Translated by James and Tania Sternand and W H Auden

Synopsis:
The tale of the servant girl Grusha and the well bred baby she saves from a revolution is told by a perpetually busy ast-cum-chorus.
Kieron Quirke, Evening Standard

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Samuel French, NY

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Translation

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10

8

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; translated by William R Spiegelberger

Synopsis:
set in Haiti and its language is the patois of the Caribbean peasantry with a French colonial legacy

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1967

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Adapatation/translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

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Samuel French, NY

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Translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
the survival qualities of goodness and evil and the definition of justice by the needs of life

Olivier Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

1997

National Theatre, London >>>

Methuen Drama, London >>>

2007

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3

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
A morality masterpiece, The Caucasian Chalk Circle powerfully demonstrates Brecht's pioneering theatrical techniques. This version by Frank McGuinness is published to coincide with the National Theatre's production touring the UK. A servant girl sacrifices everything to protect a child abandoned in the heat of civil war. Order restored, she is made to confront the boy's biological mother in a legal contest over who deserves to keep him. The comical judge calls on an ancient tradition ' the chalk circle ' to resolve the dispute. Who wins? This version by Frank McGuinness was first presented by the National Theatre in 1997 and revived in 2007, opening at the Gulbenkian Theatre, Canterbury, on 8 January.

Unity Theatre, London

1964

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in "Brecht, Bertolt, Parables For The Theatre" Penguin, London

1966

Translation

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28

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3b 1g

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
the survival qualities of goodness and evil and the definition of justice by the needs of life

Liverpool

1972

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Unpublished

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Adapatation/translation

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38

11

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
an Old Chinese Legend, a cruel town governor murdered, wife escapes leaving baby. Returns to try and 'drag the baby out of the Chal Circle'

Richmond, Surrey

1979

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Unpublished

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Adapatation/translation

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38

11

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
an Old Chinese Legend, a cruel town governor murdered, wife escapes leaving baby. Returns to try and 'drag the baby out of the Chal Circle'

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Methuen, London

1963

Adapatation/translation

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28

11

3b 1g

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Adapted by James and Tania Stern

Synopsis:
an Old Chinese Legend, a cruel town governor murdered, wife escapes leaving baby. Returns to try and 'drag the baby out of the Chal Circle'

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Methuen, London

1963

Adapatation/translation

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28

11

3b 1g

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Adapted by James and Tania Stern

Synopsis:
an Old Chinese Legend, a cruel town governor murdered, wife escapes leaving baby. Returns to try and 'drag the baby out of the Chal Circle'

Foco Novo Theatre, London

1982

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in "Theater XVII" No 2 Spring

1986

Adapatation/translation

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mixed cast

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Translation by David Dollenmayer

Synopsis:
topics on : Passports, order, fascism, the Weimar Republic etc lead to the foundation of a cockroach extermination business

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Samuel French, NY

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Adapatation/translation

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10

5

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

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Methuen, London

1978

Translation

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Large Cast

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Written in collaboration with Arno Reinfrank

Synopsis:
Period Paris 1871, the story of the Paris Commune told through fictional Men in the Street

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Methuen, London

1978

Translation

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Large Cast

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Written in collaboration with Clive Barker

Synopsis:
Period Paris 1871, the story of the Paris Commune told through fictional Men in the Street

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Samuel French, NY

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Adapatation/translation

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8

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

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in "Brecht, Bertolt, Collected Plays Vol.1 1918 - 1923" Methuen, london

1970

Adapatation/translation

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5

2

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

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in "Jungle of Cities and Other Plays" French, New York

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Translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
tells of a returning veteran who finds his girl has another man, set against the dramatic backdrop of the 1918 German revolution

Space Theatre, Festival Centre, South Australia

2005

Commissioned by Brink Productions, for the 2005 State Theatre of South Australia season. Dir: Chris Drummond.

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht. Brecht Estate-approved translation. Selected as the opening work of the 2005 State Theatre of South Australia season. Produced by The Actors' Gang in Los Angeles, USA, for a three month season 2006/7. Winner of the 2005 Adelaide Theatre Guide 'Curtain Call Award for Best Show'.

Synopsis:
Written by Brecht when he was 24, and translated by me at the same age, Drums in the Night is 'a blistering and beautiful parable that says much about a world at war with terror'. With Anna Balicke's love Kragler having left to fight in WWI five years earlier, her industrialist parents have decided the time has come for her to find a new suitor, namely the well-placed businessman Murk. But on the evening of her begrudging engagement, who should return but the poor soldier thought dead by all. With a Spartacist uprising brewing in the background, and the Schnapps flowing in the fore, the stage is set for all kinds of rebellion. 'A recent translation by Kruckemeyer might return this early work to prominence. Brecht and Kruckemeyer prove ideal collaborators for the Gang& A masterful adaptation of the play'. Jeff Favre, Daily Breeze, Los Angeles.

Edinburgh

1973

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

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Methuen, London

1980

Translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
tells of a returning veteran who finds his girl has another man, set against the dramatic backdrop of the 1918 German revolution

New End Theatre, Hampstead, London >>>

2001

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Written in collaboration with Alan Brown

Synopsis:

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Samuel French, NY

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translation

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extras

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

Bush Theatre, London >>>

1976

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

Addis Ababa

1975

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Berhanena Selam, Addis Abada

1975

Adapatation/translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

Unity Theatre, London

1956

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Lyrics adapted by Bill Norton; Music by Frank Wagland

Synopsis:

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in "Brecht, Bertolt, The Measures Taken And Other Lehrstucke" Methuen, London

1977

Adapatation/translation

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9

1

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

Bradford University

1970

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Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

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in "Brecht, Bertolt, Fear And Misery In The Third Reich And Senora Carrar's Rifles (Collected Plays Vol.4, Pt.3)" Methuen, London

1983

Adapatation/translation

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5

2

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

London

1976

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Unpublished

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Cabaret

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht and Frank Wedekind

Synopsis:

Providence, Rhode Island

1984

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Unpublished

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Adapatation/translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Written in collaboration with Adrian Hall

Synopsis:

London

1989

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Samuel French, London

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Translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
based on Brecht's 'Santa Monica' version of the play first staged in 1943

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Samuel French, NY

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Adapatation/translation

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18

11

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

Young Vic Theatre, London >>>

2008

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Methuen Drama, London >>>

2008

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Adaptation

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5

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:
Three Gods are on a journey to find out if there are any good people left on earth. Only Shen Te, a good-hearted prostitute, offers them shelter. With the money they give her she opens a tobacco shop. At once everyone needs her help. Her livelihood is in danger. Worse, she is falling in love with Sun, a pilot, who is robbing her blind. Her hard hearted cousin Shui Ta arrives to protect her. Who is he and how can good people stay good in a world of poverty and cruelty?

London

1956

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in "Brecht, Bertolt, Parables For The Theatre" Penguin, London

1966

Translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Music by Dessau

Synopsis:
three gods appear on a mission - to find one really 'good' person. A kindly prostitute

Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, London >>>

2001

National Theatre, London, mobile tour >>>

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Adapatation/translation

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5

4

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

Unity Theatre, London

1964

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Methuen, London

1985

Translation

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18

11

extras

Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht; Music by Freda Dowir and Stephen Oliver

Synopsis:
three gods appear on a mission - to find one really 'good' person. A kindly prostitute

New York

1963

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Samuel French, NY

1970

Adapatation/translation

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Bertolt Brecht

Synopsis:

Bridewell, London

1995

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Notes:
book by Dorothy Lane; music by Kurt Weill; lyrics by Bertolt Brecht; adapted by Michael Feingold

Synopsis:
Written on the heels of the phenomenally successful Threepenny Opera, Happy End again takes to task the disparity between the 'Haves' versus the 'Have-nots.' In the underworld of Chicago, 1919, a Salvation Army Lieutenant, Lillian Holiday, aka Hallelujah Lil, tries to reform a gangster, Bill Cracker, whose mob is led by the mysterious Lady in Grey (also known as 'The Fly'). During the course of the salvation, they fall in love, a robbery gets bungled, murder is attempted, there's a surprise reuniting and a 'happy' ending. Along the way we are treated to some of Weill's best songs, including 'The Bilbao Song,' 'The Sailor's Tango,' 'Song of the Big Shot,' 'The Mandalay Song,' and 'Surabaya Johnny.'" nytheatre.com contributor David Fuller (The Singapore Mikado) directs a cast headed by Jo