The Life of Galileo (Willett, trans.)

"Unquestionably Brecht's masterpiece." - New York Daily News

The time is of the emergence of the age of reason when Galileo was teaching young students the incredible account of how the earth moves around the sun, rather than the other way around. His heretical announcement, that both the moon and Jupiter onl…

The Catch

In a fisherman's shack at night, the sleeping Wife is awakened by knocking. Her husband and two Fishermen-- all drunk-- enter and the fable unwinds as discontent and frustration emerge. …

Mother Courage and Her Children (Willett, trans.)

Brecht follows Mother Courage and her children through twelve years of the holy war of the early seventeenth century through Sweden, Poland, Finland, Bavaria, and Italy. Mother Courage's first son is a dolt, but he makes a dashing soldier and plunderer. Her second son is honest, and he meets an earl…