In this imaginative musical staging of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, performers use masks, live music, and bold storytelling to ...

After Thanksgiving Break, “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” was missing a key piece: a director. Since then, the Wirtz Center team found a new director and completed blocking and staging on an expedited ...

Brecht’s 1944 play “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” is set to challenge its performers and audiences, just as a once-banned Brecht would have liked. By David Belcher As a playwright and director, Bertolt ...

Casbeque, Corporal, Laurent, Landlord, Old Couple Off-Broadway The Caucasian Chalk Circle 1990 Doctor / Architect / Chamebermaid / Younger Lady / Trader / Blackshirt / Ludo / Lawyer Off-Broadway The ...

One of the things that appealed to Frank Gallagher about Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" was the idea that it is a play-within-a-play.

Brecht’s plays are so layered with symbolism and enriched with moral lessons that it’s no surprise production companies have consistently found new ways of interpreting them. The Caucasian Chalk ...

For Megan Carmitchel, Michael Cusimano and Frankie Errington, their new Chalk Circle Collective theater production company began with a conversation — and a dilemma. “Michael came to me with a ...

The Caucasian Chalk Circle, by Bertolt Brecht, is a kind of pinko version of The Perils of Pauline. Grusha (Elizabeth Huddle) is a good soul, a simple kitchen maid who snatches up an infant princeling ...

A captivating production borne from a collaboration between Shared Experience, West Yorkshire Playhouse and Nottingham Playhouse, The Caucasian Chalk Circle follows the journey of Grusha (Matti ...