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The Good Person of Szechwan (Kushner)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  9w, 13m, 1boy(s)

Bertolt Brecht, Tony Kushner

The Good Person of Szechwan
by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Tony Kushner
Edited by Charlotte Ryland

Brecht's parable of good and evil was first performed in 1943 and remains one of his most popular and frequently produced plays worldwide. This unique bilingual edition allows students to compare the original German text with a translation by one of …

The Good Person of Szechwan (Kushner)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    9w, 13m, 1boy(s)
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Teen (Age 14 - 18)

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Summary
Brecht's parable of good and evil was first performed in 1943 and remains one of his most popular and frequently produced plays worldwide. This unique bilingual edition allows students to compare the original German text with a translation by one of the world's leading playwrights, Tony Kushner. Three gods come to earth hoping to discover one truly good person. No one can be found until they meet Shen Te, a prostitute with a heart of gold. Rewarded by the gods, she gives up her profession and buys a tobacco shop, but finds it is impossible to be a good person in a corrupt world without the support of her ruthless alter ego, Shui Ta.
Cast Attributes
Keywords
Wang the Waterseller.
The First God.
The Second God.
The Third God.
Man.
Shen Te/Shui Ta.
Mrs Shin.
The Wife.
The Nephew.
The Husband.
The Unemployed Man, then The Foreman.
The Little Man,
  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting Various interior and exterior settings
  • Cautions
    • No Special Cautions

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Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright, poet and director, was born in Augsburg, Germany in February 1898. He established himself as a playwright during the 1920s and early 1930s with plays such as Baal, Man is Man, The Threepenny Opera and The Mother. In 1933, as Hitler came ...
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Tony Kushner

Tony Kushner
Tony Kushner’s plays include Angels in America; Hydriotaphia, or the Death of Dr. Brown; The Illusion, adapted from the play by Pierre Cornelle; Slavs!; A Bright Room Called Day; Homebody/Kabul; Caroline, or Change, a musical with composer Jeanine Tesori; and The Intelligent ...
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