One of Brecht’s more challenging “parable plays,” The Good Person of Szechuan was written between 1938 and 1941 - just as Europe was on the brink of the second world war. Brecht’s plays were invariably political, and driven by the idea that theatre could be used as a tool for social change. As a result, Good Person gives us a snapshot of the political anxieties of the historical moment in which it was written: the growing tensions between upper and lower classes, between Communism and Capitalism, and the impact of wealth and power on an individual’s ability to be “good,”
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