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	The Caucasian Chalk Circle
		Brecht didn't like his audience to feel comfortable, so it would be misguided to present or to interpret The Caucasian Chalk Circle as a confirmation of our humanist values.
		In celebration of this triumph of diplomacy a singer is brought forward as entertainment; the intertwining stories of the chalk circle that are then told form the main part of the play.
		It is recounted that 250 years previously a civil war gripped the region, forcing the governor's wife Natella (Vanessa Havell) to flee.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2003-02/caucasian.htm (844 words)

	The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of Bertolt Brecht's most important plays and one of the most regularly performed German plays.
		It is one of a group of plays written by Brecht during his six-year stay in the United States, and was first staged in May 1948 by students at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.
		A circle of chalk is drawn and Michael is placed in the center.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caucasian_Chalk_Circle (1145 words)

	CPA Theatre comes full "Circle" - E-Zone
		According to master's in fine arts student and director of "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" Jessica McLaughlin, the story is based on a sixth century Chinese parable.
		"Caucasian Chalk Circle" opened Wednesday night as an audience was introduced to a chinese story told through Iraqis eyes and the interplay of contemporary images on a background screen.
		In the beginning of Caucasian Chalk Circle cast members playing Iraqis come to an agreement and will be entertained by the singer who tells the Chinese fable.
	www.dailyvidette.com /media/storage/paper420/news/2004/02/26/EZone/Cpa-Theatre.Comes.Full.circle-618700.shtml?norewrite200611152028&sourcedomain=www.dailyvidette.com (1068 words)

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		Brecht wrote "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" in the mid-1940s while living in the United States in exile from his native Germany.
		Part I is the story of Grusha's good deed and the difficult choices she must make, while Part II follows the career of Azdak, the eccentric judge who must render a verdict on Grusha's actions.
		"The Caucasian Chalk Circle" was first performed at Carleton on May 4-8, 1948, under the direction of Henry Goodman, a World War II veteran who was exposed to Brecht's works in German theaters.
	www.acad.carleton.edu /campus/archives/map.html/chalk.html (420 words)

	Term Papers on The Caucasian Chalk Circle - Term Papers Lab
		The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht uses epic theatre to bring forth an idea ormeaning for the audience to consider while entertaining the audience.
		The Chalk Circle, a Chinese play involved a legal action where the false claimant was granted custody due a bribe to claim her dead husbands estate.
		This however was overturned by the emperor, the guarantor of the law, in a ret...
	www.termpaperslab.com /term-papers/11940.html (455 words)

	Caucasian Chalk Circle
		So, in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Brecht not only puts his play within a play, but also installs a narrator right in the middle of things to keep yanking us back out of any temptation to lose ourselves in Grusha's flight or Azdak's plight.
		The musicians play from under and behind a platform from which the narrator and the chorus observe and control the action, and the timing and sensitivity of the music is therefore seen, and felt, as part of the story-telling, and subtly shapes our responses to it.
		The lighting design, by Chris Saad, is subtle and effective (the way the chalk circle, laboriously drawn by Azkak's assistant and oppressor, Shauva, comes alive as he finishes it is particularly elegant).
	www.stthomasu.ca /~hunt/reviews/circle.htm (1161 words)

	Free Essays on The Caucasian Chalk Circle By Bertolt Brecht
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		The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht uses epic theatre to bring forth an idea or meaning for the audience to consider while entertaining the audience.
		The Chalk Circle, a Chinese play involved a legal action where the false claimant was granted custody due a bribe to claim her dead husbands estate.
	www.123student.com /3001.htm (902 words)

	Caucasian Chalk Circle Playgoer's Guide
		The Caucasian Chalk Circle is not an exception to this.
		Brecht wrote Caucasian Chalk Circle for Broadway and incorporated specific elements into the play that would appeal to an American audience but he felt caught between his own instincts as a playwright and of a contract to write a play that would succeed in Broadway.
		The Chalk Circle is derived from the Chinese.
	people.stu.ca /~hunt/p2s/22230102/finlwebs/chalk/cccguide.htm (673 words)

	Chalk Circle - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
		Chalk Circle was formed in the early 80s in a town near to Stratford upon Avon in the UK.
		The name was taken from the play "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" which a close friend was studying at college at the time.
		Chalk Circle have released 2 albums, written about 40 songs and played roughly 20 gigs; mostly at night clubs but also a couple of sizeable appearances before large universtity crowds.
	music.download.com /chalkcircle/3600-8724-100087706.html (216 words)

	Full Circle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Full Circle, too, involves the recycling of popular culture, and if it's not the very best thing I've seen in ages, it is decidedly the most interesting.
		In the case of Full Circle, the base is Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle (itself a rewrite of a Chinese legend).
		The plot closely mirrors that of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, including the initial jockeying over the valley (here an egregiously politically incorrect play being performed by the Berliner Ensemble).
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/theater/00/02/24/FULL_CIRCLE.html (925 words)

	News Release: Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle"
		The Caucasian Chalk Circle will be performed in the Jane and Arthur Stieren Theater on November 10 and 11 at 8 p.m., November 12 at 2:30 p.m., and November 15-18 at 8 p.m.
		Tickets are $6 for regular admission; $5 for faculty, staff, and senior citizens; $4 for students; and $3 for groups of ten or more.
		When the governor's family is restored to power, the governor's widow wants her son back and it is up to a corrupt and cowardly judge to determine who is the child's true mother.
	www.trinity.edu /departments/public_relations/news_releases/caucasian.html (256 words)

	Free Book Notes on Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht - AntiStudy.com
		Excerpt: The Caucasian Chalk CircleThe Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht uses epic theatre to bring forth an idea ormeaning for the audience to consider while entertaining the audience.
		Excerpt: The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Brecht uses epic theatre to bring forth an idea or meaning for the audience to consider while entertaining the audience.
		Epic theatre involves the use of alienation techniques to distance the viewer from the story but still concentrate on the overall meaning.
	www.antistudy.com /free_book_notes/Caucasian_Chalk_Cirlce.php (283 words)

	Open Circle Theatre: Performances
		By casting a woman with a physical disability in one of the roles, Open Circle explores the universality of these self-images in a population that is often assumed to have negligible or very different relationship to mainstream sexuality.
		CCC was produced in association with Quest: arts for everyone and sponsored by Audio Description Associates and Sign Language Associates.
		To illustrate the ethics of such judgements, a folk singer is invited to re-tell the old tale of the circle of chalk.
	www.opencircletheatre.org /performances.htm (1003 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| Arts features \| Squaring the circle
		Appropriately for a theatre nestled in east Berlin, a stone's throw from the Palace of Tears where relatives from east and west used to bid each other goodbye at the checkpoints, Caucasian Chalk Circle is an examination of socialism and the way different parts of society interact.
		The judge Azdak finally decides the matter by ordering the child to stand inside a chalk circle and telling the women to pull.
		· Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Berliner Ensemble, and afterwards at various theatres in Europe with the Théâtre de Vidy, Lausanne.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /culturalexchange/story/0,11113,740316,00.html (777 words)

	‘Caucasian Chalk Circle’ Scheduled (Site not responding. Last check: )
		“‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ with a cast of dozens, is epic in scale, and is a melodrama and a comedy that is full of intrigue,” Schroder said.
		In the original “Caucasian Chalk Circle,” a storyteller relates the events of an ancient Chinese tale set in the Caucuses Mountains in the 11th century.
		The story is told to help settle a dispute between two factions, both claiming a piece of land in Soviet Georgia of the 1940s.
	www.isu.edu /pressrel/chalkcircle.html (312 words)

	Centre College: DramaCentre play touches on timely topic
		Written in 1944, The Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of Brecht's best-known and most-produced plays.
		The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a play within a play, and the interlocking stories ask the question "who has a right to the earth?" Based on a Chinese play, the drama is similar to the Biblical parable of the judgment of Solomon as two women claim the same child.
		Kagan-Moore, professor of dramatic arts at Centre, comments, "The Caucasian Chalk Circle is intended to focus attention on large social issues.
	www.centre.edu /web/news/2003/chalk03.html (336 words)

	Shotgun Players : Current Show (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Politically savvy, wickedly humorous and filled with music, The Caucasian Chalk Circle holds at its center the resilience of the average worker.
		The Caucasian Chalk Circle asks the audience members to question the individual’s role in a country recovering from war.
		With Brecht’s characteristic skill with razor-sharp political satire, The Caucasian Chalk Circle promises an experience that is as quick-witted and humorous as it is heavy hitting.
	www.shotgunplayers.org /archive/seas13/ccc/ccc.cfm (745 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Methuen Student Editions) (Student Editions): Books: Bertolt Brecht,W.H. ...
		In a theme that echoes the Judgment of Solomon, two women argue over the possession of a child; thanks to the unruly judge, Azdak (one of Brecht's most vivid creations) natural justice is done and the peasant Grusha keeps the child she loves, even though she is not its mother.
		Written in exile in the United States during the Second World War, "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" is a politically-charged, much-revived and complex example of Brecht's epic theatre.
		The greatest mistake people make when reading 'Caucasian Chalk Circle', one that I used to do, is to ignore or underestimate Scene 1.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Caucasian-Circle-Methuen-Student-Editions/dp/0413544508 (870 words)

	Department of Theatre Presents Faculty-Directed ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ \| College of the Holy Cross
		The Caucasian Chalk Circle examines the irrationality of propriety, charity and goodness in a world dominated by commerce, brute force and hypocrisy.
		Written between 1943-44 in New York City and Santa Monica, Calif., while Brecht was in exile from Nazi Germany, The Caucasian Chalk Circle was originally intended to be a Broadway musical.
		The Caucasian Chalk Circle (along with Mother Courage which was had toured one year earlier) sent shock waves through the theatrical world.
	www.holycross.edu /publicaffairs/press_releases/2005-2006/06_03_03a (653 words)

	broadcastellan: Chalk Circuits: Brecht, the Stage, and the Radio
		Its stage was not the proscenium arch of melodrama, plays of sentiment and sensation that draw you in and, once the curtain is drawn, absolve you from any responsibility to engage further with whatever you had the privilege of witnessing.
		Never mind that The Caucasian Chalk Circle draws to a close with the potentially high-tension climax of two women called upon to tear at a child rightfully belonging to one of them (the verdict depending on the judge's--and our--definition of "rightful").
		This Chalk Circle, replete with a narrator addressing the audience with a microphone in his hand, was a radio melodrama turned "epic" by virtue of being both played and displayed.
	broadcastellan.blogspot.com /2007/02/brecht.html (1201 words)

	The Circle 67 Players - Beginnings
		The prime mover in its foundation was Jo Stone, wife of the then headmaster of Halesworth Modern School; it was named just ‘Circle 67,’ and for some years was based at what is now the Middle School.
		In 1995 we changed our name to The Circle 67 Players, and a few years later centred our operations on Bramfield, where regular rehearsal facilities have been established at the village hall and where our costumes are stored.
		The youngest actor was little Jake Oxford, only 5 years old when he stood in the Chalk Circle (1992); and the oldest Mary Hovells, who gave her last performance in A Christmas Carol (1996) when she was in her 93rd year.
	www.circle67.co.uk /background.htm (344 words)

	Theater & Performance in Palo Alto, CA \| 'The Caucasian Chalk Circle' at Dragon Theatre
		In an age that has mall developers taking private homes by eminent domain, this play's opening scene—goat herders' land is awarded to fruit tree project developers—is unremarkable (except for the irony that Brechtian communism is now American capitalism).
		And the chalk circle test for determining the true mother of a child comes from an old story—the biblical Solomon solved his dilemma much the way Judge Azdak does.
		But it's a bit unnerving to take in the accumulation of aphoristic voices (like "Terrible is the temptation to do good") as the texture of a larger ethos, where lots of negativity, planted in an undefined landscape, maps the anatomy of wartime.
	www.metroactive.com /metro/08.09.06/caucasian-chalk-circle-0632.html (715 words)

	Amazon.com: The Caucasian Chalk Circle: Books: Bertolt Brecht
		The dispute between the governor's wife, who abandoned the child, and the young servant who saved the child and cared for him is settled by an eccentric judge who places the child in a chalk circle and declares that whichever woman can pull him from the circle will be granted custody.
		When the servant, not wanting to harm the child, lets the governor's wife have him, she is awarded the child, having demonstrated greater love than the natural mother.
		Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," written in self-imposed exile towards the end of World War II, is a story within a play, in which a bard, or singer, interrupts a group of Caucasian farmers arguing over ownership of land that has been ravaged by Nazi tanks and entertains them with a relevant tale of yore.
	www.amazon.com /Caucasian-Chalk-Circle-Bertolt-Brecht/dp/1559702532 (1058 words)

	Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
		The circle draws its rich symbolism from numerous sources, including, but not limited to Biblical liturgy (St. Augustine described the nature of God as a circle whose center was everywhere, and its circumference nowhere)....
		"In The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Grusha makes that ambiguous surrender to experience which is also an assertion of the will; she succums to the 'terrible' temptation to save the child, but in the romance of this play, her assertion is not self destructive.
		The ancient area of Grusinia in The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a mixture of the modern-day Georgia and Azerbaijan, south of the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas.
	www.csuchico.edu /~curban/BrechtSp2003.html (11603 words)

	National Theatre : Productions : The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Order restored, she is made to confront the boy's biological mother in a legal contest over who deserves to keep him.
		The comical judge calls on an ancient tradition — the chalk circle — to resolve the dispute.
		The Caucasian Chalk Circle tours to UK venues from 9 January - 3 March 2007.
	www.nationaltheatre.org.uk /?lid=21348 (205 words)

	The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brecht wrote "The Caucasian Chalk Circle" in the mid-1940s, while living in the United States in exile from his native Germany.
		Part I is the story of Grusha's good deed and the difficult choices she must make and Part II follows the career of Azdak, the eccentric judge who must render a verdict on Grusha's actions.
		"The Caucasian Chalk Circle" was first performed at Carleton on May 4-8, 1948, under the direction of Henry Goodman, a World War II veteran who was exposed to Brecht's works in German theaters.
	www.carleton.edu /campus/newsbureau/pr/brecht.html (458 words)

	The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Brecht) - The Guide to World Drama (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Parable play based on the Chinese drama The Circle of Chalk, proclaiming that ownership should be decided by merit, not law.
		In a prologue, members of two Soviet communes, goat breeders and fruit growers, meet in a war-shattered village to discuss who should have a certain valley, the ownership of which is disputed.
		In refusing to harm the child by pulling it, Grusha is ruled to be the 'true' mother.
	www.4-wall.com /authors/authors_b/brecht/caucasian_chalk_circle.htm (159 words)

	Caucasian Chalk Circle Lighting Design by William Temple Davis at the University of Denver Theatre Department (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Caucasian Chalk Circle Lighting Design by William Temple Davis at the University of Denver Theatre Department
		Caucasian Chalk Circle was produced on the University of Denver Theatre Department’s proscenium stage.
		The Caucasian Chalk Circle set consisted of a semi-circular platform surrounding a central playing space.
	www.du.edu /thea/designs/Design-ChalkCircle.html (147 words)

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