Full Length, Drama w/music / 18m, 5f, extras /Int./5 Exts.
Together they made this remarkable contribution to musical theatre..
It was a collaboration with the eminent French composer Darius Milhaud.
The most interesting of these is published here.
He was eventually to make several different English versions of it.
When Bertolt Brecht directed the play in Munich (1950), Eric Bentley, Assistant Director, at his bidding started to translate the play into English.
It had, of course, by that time been produced to much acclaim all over the world.
In America, it was published in English right away (1941, by New Directions) but did not reach Broadway till 1963 - in a memorable production directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Anne Bancroft.
This German play was written in 1939 and was first produced in Zurich in 1941.
Full Length, Drama w/music / 18m, 5f, extras /Int./5 Exts
