Join Theatre Ministry Friday, July 26 at 8:00 p.m. at Antaeus Theatre in Glendale.
Tickets are $25 and available at https://qrs.ly/xla9f4j

“For today’s American audience Bertolt Brecht may be an unfamiliar name.  Yet, he speaks for a past time that is becoming eerily present.  Fleeing Hitler’s Germany, Brecht sought refuge in America, only–at the end of WWII–to become the victim of the McCarthy Era.  Sought after by the House Un-American Activities Committee he returned to Europe, this time to a divided Berlin.  And, in East Berlin, newly formed company, The Berliner Ensemble, became the most celebrated theatre of its time.  Its productions of his plays spoke to a deeply wounded world seeking to right itself as it hammered out tools for peace.  For justice.

No theatre since the days of Shakespeare was more in touch with its people.  The Caucasian Chalk Circle is based on a simple Chinese folk tale, but it spoke to the destroyed cities and wounded nations  of the world as it moved inexorably to its conclusion—a small child in a circle, two competing mothers on either side, and the command to “pull!”  And today?  Our own refugees, our own world’s destroyed cities, our own world’s lost children.  Where do they find today’s peace?  Who will mother our own lost children?  Who is wise enough to grant justice?  In The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Brecht speaks as a great poet, as one who has been there, as one who knows. “

—John Ahart

In this production, set against a backdrop of violence and injustice, Bertolt Brecht’s 1944 masterpiece is a play within a play. Farmers debating the best use of their land enact a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a nobly born baby during a bloody revolution and the unconventional judge who determines their fate.

Antaeus Theatre is located at 110 E. Broadway Glendale CA 91205

We will be in the Connection Center on the lawn July 14 & 21.

Information = Debbie Daniels 626.583.2750 or ddaniels@allsaints-pas.org.