20:15, Wed 22nd October 2025 at Haymarket Theatre
21:00, Fri 24th October 2025 at Gielgud Theatre
19:15, Mon 27th October 2025 at London Palladium
19:45, Wed 29th October 2025 at London Palladium
Michaelmas Week 2 to Week 3

The Good Person of Szechwan is a play written by the German theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau. The play was begun in 1938 but not completed until 1943, while the author was in exile in the United States. It was first performed in 1943 at the Zürich Schauspielhaus in Switzerland, with a musical score and songs by Swiss composer Huldreich Georg Früh. Today, Paul Dessau's composition of the songs from 1947–48, also authorized by Brecht, is the better known version. The play is an example of Brecht's "non-Aristotelian drama", a dramatic form intended to be staged with the methods of epic theatre. The play is a parable set in the Chinese "city of Sichuan".