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The Visions of Simone Machard (Manheim, trans.)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  3f, 12m, 15m or f

Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim, Leon Feuchtwanger

The Visions of Simone Marchard
By Bertholt Brecht
Translated by Ralph Manheim

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The Visions of Simone Machard (Manheim, trans.)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3f, 12m, 15m or f
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult

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Summary

Simone, a teenage girl working as a hostelry student, spends her time reading about Joan of Arc. The period is 1940 and the Germans are advancing towards the French town. In a series of dreams or visions she sees herself as Joan leading a Resistance movement against the enemy. When she attempts to turn her visions into a reality, her employers commit her to a mental asylum. However, in the last few lines of the play it appears that she has encouraged others in the town to take action. 

  • Time Period 1940s/WWII
  • Setting A courtyard

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Authors

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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Ralph Manheim

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Leon Feuchtwanger

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