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December 1, 2000Volume 29, Number 12





Drama School stages Brecht's 'folk tale'

As its second production in its new theater space, the Yale School of Drama will present "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," Bertolt Brecht's tale of an abandoned baby and the struggle by two women over him.

Brecht's "sweeping folk tale" will be performed in the round with an ensemble of 14 playing over 100 characters in as many costumes. The production, which runs Nov. 30 to Dec. 6, is a world premiere translation by second-year drama student Marcella Nowak. Glynis Rigsby, a third-year student at the School of Drama, will direct the show.

"The Caucasian Chalk Circle" -- written in the 1940s when Brecht was living in the United States in exile from his native Germany -- is based on a Chinese play written in 1300. Set in Soviet Georgia near the end of World War II, the play dramatizes the plight of Grusha, a young servant woman who reluctantly rescues a baby abandoned by an empress. After the child is grown, the empress wants him back. The Solomon-like conflict between the two "mothers" is settled by an eccentric judge. London's Sunday Times has called the work a "great moral-political fable."

Performance times for "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" are 8 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 1, and Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 5 and 6; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 2; and 7 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 4. All shows are in the New Theatre at Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall, 1156 Chapel St.

Tickets range from $12-$15, with discounts for students, seniors, subscribers and groups of 10 or more. For further information or to order tickets, call (203) 432-1234, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday.


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