Señora Carrar's Rifles
Señora Carrar's Rifles (German: Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar) is a one-act play by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, written in collaboration with Margarete Steffin.[1][2] It is a modern version of the Irish dramatist John Millington Synge's play Riders to the Sea (1904). The play's setting is re-located to Spain during the height of the Civil War. Teresa Carrar, the mother, wants to protect her children but ends up fighting on the side of the oppressed. Brecht wrote it in 1937 and it received its first theatrical production in the same year, opening in Paris on 16 October.[3] This production was directed by Slatan Dudow and Helene Weigel played Señora Carrar.[4]
See also
References
- ^ She is acknowledged in the 1955 Collected Works.
- ^ "Out of Compulsion". Financial Tribune. 2018-02-03. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
- ^ Squiers, Anthony (2014). An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht: Revolution and Aesthetics. . Amsterdam: Rodopi. p. 188. ISBN 9789042038998.
- ^ Willett, John (1959). The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects. Methuen. pp. 45–46. ISBN 978-91-20-08535-7.
- v
- t
- e
works
- Baal
- Drums in the Night
- A Wedding
- Driving Out a Devil
- Lux in Tenebris
- Mysteries of a Barbershop
- In the Jungle of Cities
- Edward II
- Man Equals Man
- Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer
- The Elephant Calf
- Little Mahagonny
- The Threepenny Opera
- The Flight Across the Ocean
- The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent
- Happy End
- Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
- Der Jasager / Der Neinsager
- The Decision
- Saint Joan of the Stockyards
- The Exception and the Rule
- The Mother
- Kuhle Wampe
- The Seven Deadly Sins
- Round Heads and Pointed Heads
- The Horatians and the Curiatians
- Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
- Señora Carrar's Rifles
- Life of Galileo
- How Much Is Your Iron?
- Dansen
- Mother Courage and Her Children
- The Trial of Lucullus
- Mr Puntila and His Man Matti
- The Good Person of Szechwan
- The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
- Hangmen Also Die!
- The Visions of Simone Machard
- The Duchess of Malfi
- Schweyk in the Second World War
- The Caucasian Chalk Circle
- Antigone
- The Days of the Commune
- The Tutor
- Die Verurteilung des Lukullus
- Report from Herrnburg
- Coriolanus
- The Trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen, 1431
- Turandot
- Don Juan
- Trumpets and Drums
techniques
This article on a play from the 1930s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e