The Caucasian Chalk Circle

Tickets
Address Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, Berlin
Tags Drama
Venue's website www.berliner-ensemble.de
Length 110 min
Director Michael Thalheimer
Language English friendly
Release 23. 9. 2017
Author Bertolt Brecht
Takes place during Culture Online

Performing: Stefanie Reinsperger, Ingo Hülsmann, Tilo Nest, Nico Holonics, Sina Martens, Carina Zichner, Veit Schubert, Sascha Nathan, Peter Luppa,

The Chalk Circle’s plot is of exemplary clarity and dialectic beauty: During a revolution, a baby is passed from one mother to another. Over the course of her flight, the new mother gets into ever deeper trouble and ultimately finds herself on trial at a court of law. Times have changed once more and the child is now heir to a great fortune. But Judge Azdak is still in power: His rulings are feared by the rich and a blessing for the poor. And when the biological mother ruthlessly demands the return of her child, he re-invents Solomon’s chalk circle. When Bertolt Brecht and his Berliner Ensemble took over the Theater am Schiffsbauerdamm in 1954, his first production there was The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Michael Thalheimer is in-house director at Berliner Ensemble and will create productions there at regular intervals.

The performance of The Caucasian Chalk Circle will regularly provide English surtitles. The dates can be found here. The box office staff will be happy to inform about which seats will have a good sight-line to the surtitles.

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