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The Days of the Commune (Barker, Reinfrank)

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  12w, 42m, 2 any gender (youth)

Clive Barker, Bertolt Brecht, Arno Reinfrank

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The Days of the Commune (Barker, Reinfrank)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    12w, 42m, 2 any gender (youth)
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Period
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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The story of the Paris Commune is told through fictional Men in the Street grouped round a Montmartre cafe, and a number of historical personages. The Men in the Street resist Thier's attempt to disarm the National Guard and watch its Central Committee seize power at the Hotel de Ville. The Men in the Street put up a barricade, on which they fight and die. 

  • Time Period 19th Century
  • Setting

    Paris, January to April 1871

  • Features Period Costumes

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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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