In the Jungle of Cities
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 100 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5126-4448-5
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In The Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Stadte) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Written between 1921 and 1924, it received its first theatrical production under the title In the Jungle (Im Dickicht) at the Residenztheater in Munich, opening on 9 May 1923. This production was directed by Erich Engel, with set-design by Caspar Neher. The cast included Otto Wernicke as Shlink the lumber dealer, Erwin Faber as George Garga, and Maria Koppenhofer as his sister Mary. The Jungle was produced at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin, where Brecht had been employed as a dramaturg. The production opened on 29 October 1924, with the same director and scenographer but in a cut version with a new prologue (given below) and under the title Jungle: Decline of a Family (Dickicht: Untergang einer Familie). Fritz Kortner played Shlink and Walter Frank played George, with Franziska Kinz, Paul Bildt, Mathias Wieman, and Gerda...