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How Much Is Your Iron? (Walsh)
Short Play, Drama / 2f, 4m
How Much Is Your Iron?
by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Enda Walsh
A sinister customer purchases iron from Sven'son, whose neighbour, a tobaccon'st, is later murdered. The customer returns and barters for iron with cigars (Sven'son's weakness). Another neighbour is murdered but Sven'son continues to supply thecustomer — after all, it's business.
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Cast Size
2f, 4m -
Subgenre
Adaptation (Stage & Screen), Period
Details
Summary
A sinister customer purchases iron from Sven'son, whose neighbour, a tobaccon'st, is later murdered. The customer returns and barters for iron with cigars (Sven'son's weakness). Another neighbour is murdered but Sven'son continues to supply the customer — after all, it's business. Finally, brandishing machine guns, the customer deman's: "How much is your iron?" and the iron-dealer stammers "Nothing".
- Time Period 1930s
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £40 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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Enda Walsh
Enda Walsh is a playwright and screenwriter who shot to fame when he won both the George Devine Award and the Stewart Parker Award in 1997 with his play Disco Pigs. In 2007 and 2008 Mr. Walsh won Fringe First Awards at two consecutive Edinburgh Festivals for his plays The Wal ...
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