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Roundheads and Peakheads (tr. Brown/Dietz)

Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire  /  6w, 12m

Rich and Rich Make Good Company

Roundheads and Peakheads (tr. Brown/Dietz)

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    6w, 12m
  • Duration
    Duration
    120 minutes (2 hours)
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14-18)

Details

Summary

The play is a satirical anti-Nazi parable about a fictitious country called Yahoo in which the rulers maintain their control by setting the people with round heads against those with pointed heads, thereby substituting racial relations for their antagonistic class relations.

Based on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure

Cast Attributes

ROUNDHEADS (Czuchs):

The Regent

Missena, his privy councilor

Angelo Iberin

Callas, tenant farmer

Nanna, his daughter, waitress at Madame Cornamontis' cafe

Mistress Callas and her four children

Parr, tenant farmer

The Mother Superior of San Barabas

The Abbot of San Stefano

Alfonzo Saz, landowner

Juan Duarte, Landowner

De Hoz, landowner

Madame Cornamontis, manager and owner of a cafe

Family Lawyer of the De Guzmans

Lord Chief Justice

Police Inspector

Callamassi, owner of house property

A Fat Woman, owner of grocery shop

Palmosa, tabacconist

A write, Iberin Soldiers, Tenant farmers, small townsmen

PEAKHEADS (Czichs):

Emanuele de Guzan, a landowner

Isabella, his sister

Lopez, a tenant farmer

Misress Lopez and her three small children

Ignatio Peruiner, a landowner

A second lawyer

A grocer

a tenant farmer

an office worker

  • Time Period Contemporary
  • Setting

    he fictitious land of Yaboo

  • Duration 120 minutes (2 hours)
  • 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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