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Roundheads and Peakheads (tr. Brown/Dietz)
Full-Length Play, Satire/Political Satire / 6f, 12m
Bertolt Brecht, Alan Brown, Kyra Dietz
Rich and Rich Make Good Company
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Cast Size
6f, 12m -
Duration
120 minutes (2 hours) -
Target Audience
Adult
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
- 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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Alan Brown