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Full-Length Play, Comedy / 7w, 14m
Bertolt Brecht, Paul Kriwaczek
Epic comedy describing the aristocratic land-owner Puntila's relationship to his servant, Matti, as well as his daughter, Eva, whom he wants to marry off to an Attaché. Eva herself loves Matti and so Puntila has to decide whether to marry his daughter to his driver or to an Attaché, while he also deals with a drinking problem.
Mr Puntila suffers from a dual personality. When drunk he is human and humane; when sober he is surly and self-centred. In the former condition he proposes to Eva to marry his own loyal and sardonic friend, His chauffeur Matti. When he sobers up he throws Eva out and abuses Matti. However, after putting Eva’s suitability to the test, and having had enough of Puntila’s instability, Matti leaves him saying ‘water and oil can never blend.’
Puntila, a landowner Eva Puntila, his daughter Matti, his chauffeur The waiter The judge The attaché The vet Sly-Grog Emma The chemist's assistant The milkmaid The telephonist A fat man A labourer The red-headed man The weedy man Red surkkala His four children Laina, the cook Fina, the parlourmaid The lawyer The parson The parson's wife Woodcutters
1920s Finland