Michaelhouse in partnership with Treverton will present The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the
Schlesinger Theatre next week. Michaelhouse senior boys will team up with
Treverton girls from grades 11 and 12 in this IEB setwork for drama.
The Caucasian Chalk
Circle is an epic play written by German playwright Bertolt Brecht in 1944.
The Michaelhouse/Treverton version, in an adapted prologue,
is set in post-Apartheid South Africa, as different parties argue over
ownership of a piece of land. A play (Brecht’s original) is shown to help with
the decision. The play is told in five scenes, and is really two stories. The
first story is about Grusha, a strong-willed peasant girl, and the second is
about Azdak, a judge who brings a unique brand of justice to the land.
The story is set within the story of the land debate, a
play-within-a-play. Brecht uses epic theatre techniques, such as distancing the
audience from emotional reaction, through song, humour and the sheer size of
the play, in order to get the audience to think intellectually about issues and
form objective opinions.
Directed by
William le Cordeur, The Caucasian
Chalk Circle has performances on March 3 at 19h30 and March 4 at 14h00 in
the Schlesinger Theatre at
Michaelhouse in the KZN Midlands. Tickets R50 booked through Mrs Angela Jonsson
at theatre@michaelhouse.org or call 033 234 1314 (From April
21 - Weekdays between 08h00 and 13h00) The play runs at 1 hour 45 minutes with
no interval.
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