Bertolt Brecht's Allegory In The Caucasian Chalk Circle

We performed “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” an epic theatre play written by Bertolt Brecht, a German Marxist poet, playwright, and theatre director. I played the role of Simon Chachava, a proud and noble palace guard for Georgi Abashvili the governor of the city of Grusinia. “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” is an allegory which explores parenthood, property, war, and the difference between right and wrong in difficult and complicated situations. The play begins with a prologue which is set after the end of WW II and deals with an argument over a valley. Two groups of peasants want to have a valley that was abandoned during WW II. One of the groups lived in the valley and herded goats there before the war, while the other group is from a neighbouring valley and wants to plant fruit trees. A Delegate was sent to settle the argument and it was decided to give the valley to the fruit farmers because they think they will use the land better. This introduces

He wrote several well known plays including The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Threepenny Opera, The Good Woman of Setzuan, and also The Caucasian Chalk Circle. One of Brecht’s most important contribution to theatre is the idea “epic theatre”, which is a style of theatre that aims to remind its audience that they are being shown demonstrations of human behaviour, not the real thing, which is the opposite to what Naturalism tries to show the audience. Naturalistic styles try to recreate real life and create deep characters that seemed real to try and gain empathy from the audience; Naturalism was used as entertainment and as an escape from the real world and the audience’s problems, Naturalism theatre wanted the audience not to think about deeper meaning and just feel emotions for the characters. Brecht hated this form of theatre, he wanted the audience to think, challenge, and question what they are