Two One-Act Plays by Bertolt Brecht

Past event
May 11 to 14, 2023

The Parish Players of Thetford, Vermont present two rarely performed "courtroom dramas" by Bertolt Brecht, one of the 20th century's fiercest satirists:

The ELEPHANT CALF and THE TRIAL OF LUCULLUS

Directed by Ria Blaas

Produced by Jim Schley & Duncan Nichols, with lights by Brian Kenyon

And featuring Antoinette Jacobson, Becky Bailey, Don Kollisch, Duncan Nichols, Erik Gaetz, Geoffrey Gardner, Jayn Keller, Jim Schley, Kate Magill, Lindsay Putnam, Soren Lavoie, and Susanna Lewis

One weekend only!

May 11, 12, 13 at 7:30
matinee on May 14 at 3:00

$10 students, $15 seniors, $20 general

Purchase tickets online at www.parishplayers.org

In THE ELEPHANT CALF (circa 1925), a wacky troupe of actors tries to stage a play about a Baby Elephant accused of killing his Mother. An officious Banana Tree is the judge, arguing for a guilty verdict with aid of the Moon as prosecutor. A rowdy gang of soldiers heckles from the bar, as the court demonstrates how "Anything and everything can be proved!"

In THE TRIAL OF LUCULLUS (1940), first produced as a radio play, then as an opera, and here performed partially as a shadow play, a noble but brutal Roman general appears after death in a tribunal of the underworld. His jury are the shades of ordinary people who were among the victims of war, and who must decide if General Lucullus will be condemned to damnation or welcomed to everlasting glory.

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