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The Elephant Calf

Short Play

Bertolt Brecht, Gerhard Nellhaus

Characters from Brecht's
full-length play Man Equals Man put on a play for an audience of fellow soldiers:
An elephant calf is accused of killing his own mother, and a banana tree is
determined to prove his guilt in a trial moderated by the Moon as judge.

The Elephant Calf

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Subtitled, "Or, the provability of every contention," The Elephant Calf features the characters of Man Equals Man putting on a play for an audience of fellow soldiers. In their play, an elephant calf is accused of killing his own mother, and a banana tree is determined to prove his guilt in a trial moderated by the Moon as judge.

Brecht draws upon the modern resources of comedy, the style of the music hall, the technique of film, and absurdity raised to an art - gives theatre its new Brechtian image and dimension that has loomed so large on the modern stage.

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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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