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Trumpets and Drums (tr. Brown/Dietz)
Full-Length Play, Comedy / 12f, 21m
Bertolt Brecht, Alan Brown, Kyra Dietz
Trumpets And Drums
by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Alan Brown and Kyra Dietz
Brecht takes George Farquhar's Restoration comedy, The Recruiting Officer, and transfers it to the period of the American Revolutionary War.
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Cast Size
12f, 21m -
Duration
90 minutes -
Subgenre
Period
Details
Summary
Plume, the recruiting officer, who has arrived Shrewsbury from London, is informed by his Sergeant, Kite about the state of the market for recruits and love. Recruiting is going badly, but Victoria, the justice's daughter, who a year earlier had been in pigtails, has been visiting a girl put in the family way by Plume. Plume gives his friend the shoe manufacturer, Worthy, a word of advice in matters of the heart and in return Worthy offers him a handsome commission on boots, which Worthy needs soldiers to fill.
Cast Attributes
- Time Period 18th Century
- Setting England, during the American War of Independence.
- Duration 90 minutes
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