A long time ago, a poor peasant girl named Grusha
adopts an abandoned, hunted baby of noble birth and
risks everything for him ~ love, happiness, even her life.
Bertolt Brecht's most accessible and popular work, filled
with songs, The Caucasian Chalk Circle examines the power
of love over greed while exploring the contradictory axiom
that it is a terrible temptation to do good in an evil world.
Will Grusha be able to save the baby? Will she be able to s
ave herself? What will happen when the baby's birth mother
comes to reclaim her child? And most important, what constitutes
justice in a corrupt society, and who is capable of delivering it?
This play is that rare work of art that manages to be both
entertaining and provocative.
