19:15, Sat 9th January 2027 at Random Venue 61
19:45, Sun 10th January 2027 at Haymarket Theatre
20:00, Tue 12th January 2027 at Liverpool Empire Theatre
19:15, Fri 15th January 2027 at Crucible Theatre
19:45, Mon 18th January 2027 at The Old Vic
19:30, Wed 20th January 2027 at Random Venue 38
Christmas Vacation to Lent Week 0
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".
