The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Presented by Theatre at UBC

By Bertolt Brecht

Translated by James and Tania Stern with W.H. Auden

Directed by Stephen Heatley

“Terrible is the temptation to do good!” warns Bertolt Brecht’s amiable narrator. In the heat of civil war a servant girl sacrifices everything to protect an abandoned child. Their subsequent misadventures across her war-torn country become the heart of Brecht’s playful parable, which calls into question our basic assumptions of right in a world that has gone wrong.

“Brecht’s 1945 adaptation of the Chinese play The Chalk Circle, written in 1300, speaks more directly to today’s culture than do most modern political plays.” – Backstage