Turandot (Brecht)

"Turandot, or the Whitewashers' Congress" is a play written by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht in 1953-4 and first produced at the Zürich Schauspielhaus in 1969, in a production directed by Benno Besson and Horst Sagert. It is based on Carlo Gozzi's Commedia dell'arte play "Turandot" (1762).It had its UK premiere at the Hampstead Theatre in September 2008, in a translation by Edward Kemp and directed by Anthony Clark, Mr and Mrs Wolff were present at the event.

Brecht's main character is coarse, lacking the whimsical charm of Gozzi's portrayal and the aspiration to nobility in Schiller's adaptation (1801).Thomson (1994, 25).]

Works cited

* Sacks, Glendyr. 1994. "A Brecht Calendar." In Thomson and Sacks (1994, xvii-xxvii).
* Thomson, Peter. 1994. "Brecht's Lives". In Thomson and Sacks (1994, 22-39).
* Thomson, Peter and Glendyr Sacks, eds. 1994. "The Cambridge Companion to Brecht". Cambridge Companions to Literature Ser. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521414466.
* Willett, John. 1959. "The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects." London: Methuen. ISBN 0413 34360 X.

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