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Mr Puntila and his Man Matti

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  7w, 14m

Brecht's Puntila is the Jekyll and Hyde of the class war. When he's plastered this Finnish landowner drips with sugary human kindness; once sober again, he's a tyrannical bastard. . . Lee Hall mixes in-your-face contemporary slang with endearing jokes. . ..It's not often that you can write 'Bertolt Brecht' and 'knockabout fun' in the same sentence - Paul Taylor, Independent

Mr Puntila and his Man Matti

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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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Lee Hall

Lee Hall was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne in 1966 and studied English Literature at Cambridge University. He has worked as a writer in theatre, TV, radio and film. He has been writer in residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Live Theatre, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

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