The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a dense play. There are multiple story lines. There's a play within a play, and another play within that play. It's three hours long. Set during World War II, Bertolt ...

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 ...

The exploration of complex issues and questions of morality are quickly becoming the hallmark of Norman North High School’s spring dramas. Last year, NNHS speech and drama teacher Jim Ryan led his ...

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 ...

The story of a land dispute between two rival groups in Eastern Europe, a 'special military operation' and a refugee crisis. No, not the current news headlines, but the contents of Bertolt Brecht's ...

Bertok Brecht was a magnificent failure. Better known in this country for his notions of what the theater should be than for his plays themselves, his plays, with the exception of The Threepenny Opera ...

When it's announced at the start of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" that those assembled on stage will be putting on a play called "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," one character asks, "Can you hurry it up?

It’s a rare and welcome occurrence when arts programming — often planned months in advance — and current events collide in a moment of perfect timing. For Constellation Theatre, the company’s engaging ...

The Caucasian Chalk Circle (based on an old Chinese fable The Circle of Chalk) is Black Swan’s ?rst international collaboration. The play famously begins with a village debate about land ownership, ...

There are two protagonists in Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," and they embody overlapping plans for deposing the wealthy classes. In its current production, Hipgnosis Theater does very ...