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St Joan of the Stockyards
Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire / 3f, 9m
Bertolt Brecht, Ralph Manheim
St Joan of the Stockyards
By Bertolt Brect
Translated by Ralph Manheim
The play charts Joan's battle with Pierpont Mauler, the unctuous owner of a meat-packing plant. Like her predecessor, Joan is a doomed woman, a martyr and (initially, at least) an innocent in a world of strike-breakers, fat cats, and penniless workers.
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Cast Size
3f, 9m -
Subgenre
Period -
Target Audience
Adult
Details
Summary
In the stockyards and commercial exchanges of modern Chicago, Salvation Army girl Joan Dark imagines that the meat-packer king Piermont Mauler is going to save the falling market and prevent unemployment. She helps the workers to organise a general strike, and Mauler is persuaded to lead the meat ring out of its troubles. Johanna, desperately ill, is canonised by Mauler for her work among the poor, and she vainly denounces the class system as she dies.
Cast Attributes
- Time Period 1930s
- Setting 1930s Chicago
- Cautions
- Mild Adult Themes
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
Authors
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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