Yeh, but i can understand where Skillo's coming from...look, the exam's in like 3 hours or something so here's a little bit of stuff, hope this helps Serg01 cos it's not like i can type a chunk of essay about the Caucasian play here right now for u:
One of Brecht's last plays, it's one of the more complex examples of Brecht's Epic Theatre (compared to for example, one of his earliest, The Threepenny Opera)
This is because he actually takes the play onto a large scale, paralleling 2 stories: 'The Struggle for the Valley' and the ancient Chinese Parable, 'The Chalk Circle'. He creates the montage effect with the discrete, episodic scenes (which are titled) so blab about that. So that explains its dramatic structure, and also mention the use of the narrator, The Singer and his purpose etc.
In terms of staging, if u performed it, blab about it. Then talk about his use of costume (which i can't detail here, but what he used in the performance he directed), the use of masks under the influence of Eastern/Chinese theatre and Greek Tragedy.
Hope this very simplified stuff helps, i can't possibly explain it to you in more detail than that cos you should be able to write chunks out of what i just wrote up there and expand on it with your own understanding.
good luck everyone! and chill!!
-marilia- xoxo
