Bertolt Brecht

Presents a fable which uses the ancient Chinese tale of the test of the chalk circle to illuminate the author's vision of an alterable present and the hope of a future golden age

The Days of the Commune is a play by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. It dramatises the rise and fall of the Paris Commune in 1871. The play is an adaptation of the 1937 play The Defeat by the Norwegian poet and dramatist Nordahl Grieg. Brecht's collaborator Margarete Steffin translated the play …