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Senora Carrar's Rifles (tr. Sauerlander)

Short Play, Drama  /  3w, 6m

Bertolt Brecht, Wolfgang Sauerlander

The play is a modern version of J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea.

Senora Carrar's Rifles (tr. Sauerlander)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    3w, 6m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Period
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Appropriate for All Audiences

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Summary

Widow Carrar observes neutrality by refusing to let her sons join the Spanish Republican Army, or to let her brother have the rifles which were concealed by her husband before his death. When the elder son is killed by the rebels, mother and son decide to take the hidden rifles and leave with her brother for the front. 

Teresa Carrar, a fisherwoman
José, her youngest son
Pedro Jaqueras, a worker, brother of Teresa Carrar
The Wounded Man
The Priest 
Old Mrs Pérez 
Two Fishermen
Women
Children

  • Time Period 1930s
  • Setting

    A fisherman's cottage in Andalucia, on a night in April, 1937.

Licensing & Materials

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Authors

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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