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Turandot (tr. Goldby)

Full-Length Play, Comedy  /  9w, 33m

Bertolt Brecht, Derek Goldby

Turandot is a play written by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and is based on Carlo Gozzi's Commedia dell'arte play of the same name.

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Turandot (tr. Goldby)

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    9w, 33m
  • Audience
    Target Audience
    Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14-18)

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Summary

There is no cotton to be bought in China; the Emporer and his brother have a monopoly, but are waiting for a rise in price. A group of futile thinkers is called in to invent excuses for the shortage, the most successful whitewasher to marry the Emporer's daughter Turandot. Gogher Gogh, the gangster, burns half the imperial cotton stock so that the rest can be sold on a rising market, but Turandot does not care to marry him. 

Cast Attributes

The Emporer of China
Turandot, his daughter
Yao Yel, his brother 
The Dowager Empress
Her Doctor
A cleaner
The Prime Minister
The Court Tui
The Minsiter for War 
Xi Wei, Chairman of the Association of Tuis
Ke Lei, Dean of the Imperial University 
Munka Du
His Mother
His two sisters
His secretary
His portrait artist
Nu Shan, secretary to Xi Wei
Wen, another tui
Wang, secretary of the Tui Academy
Gu, Ka Mu, Mo Si and Shi Ka
A Sha Sen, an old peasant
Er Fei, his grandon
A clerk
A waiter
Gogher Gogh, a bandit
Ma Gogh, his mother
Two bodyguards
Turandot's two maidservants
Two Union Tuis
The delegate of the Clothesmakers
The delegate of the Clothesless
A teacher
Si Fu, a pupil
Pupils
A scribe
Shi Me, a young Tui 
Meh Nei, leader of a group of young Tuis
The geographer Pauder Mel
An unknown head of the city wall
The hangman
The Tui for General Education
The Tui for economics 
The Tui for medicine 
The Tui for love-life
A street-seller
Customers
Qiung, Su and Yao, washerwomen
A swordsmith
Woman at the window 
Tuis
Armed men
Bandits
Officers 
Soldiers
Members of the Clothesless 

  • Setting

    Set in China at an indeterminate time in the past 

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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