Bertolt Brecht

The Threepenny Opera is a "play with music", translated by German dramatist Elisabeth Hauptmann from John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Bertolt Brecht to music by Kurt Weill. The work offers a Socialist critique of …

The Trial of Lucullus is a short didactic radio play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht written in verse. In it, the great Roman general Lucullus appears after death before a judge and jury of the underworld, who are to decide whether he should be condemned to Hades or admitted to the Elysian fields. The jury, …