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The Trial of Lucullus (tr. Hays)

Short Play, Drama  /  5w, 5m, 10any gender (adult)

Bertolt Brecht, H.R. Hays

The Trial of Lucullus
by Bertolt Brecht, translated by H.R. Hays

The great Roman General Lucullus is judged in the underworld by representatives of the living future. The figures from his triumphal frieze …

The Trial of Lucullus (tr. Hays)

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The great Roman General Lucullus is judged in the underworld by representatives of the living future. The figures from his triumphal frieze are called as witnesses to his victories but only his introduction of the cherry tree into Europe speaks for him. Thus his bloody hands are not entirely empty, but 80,000 dead is a high price to pay.
  • Setting Set in classical Rome.

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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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