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DRUMS IN THE NIGHT
Berthold Brecht
BIOGRAPHY
Born: 10 February 1898
Augsberg, Germany
Died: 14 August 1956 (Age 58)
East Berlin, German Democratic RepublicOccupation: Playwright
Theater Director Poet
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was an influential German
Dramatist of the 20th century. & commonly
know as Bertolt Brecht.
MAIN CHARTERS
Andreas Kragler the poor proletarian. Annas lover who missing
WWI solder.
Anna Balicke the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Balicke, who engage
MurkeKarl Balicke & Emily Balicke who convince Anna to marry a
wealthy war-materials
manufacturer, Murk.
Frederick Murke The war profiteer, Annas fianc who didnt
fight.
MAJOR CHARACTERS
Marie and Auguste a prostitute.
Glubb a bartenderBull newspaper vendor
Babusch a journalist
Shanke a cabaret performance
SETTINGS
Munich, after WWI
Newspaper building they are re-united to the sound a white wild
screaming.
PLOT
The story revolved around Anna Balicke, whose lover Andreas has
left to fight in WWI. Annas
parents try to believe her that he is dead and that she should
forget him.Annas agrees to this arrangement eventually, just as
Andreas returns. Believing that the poor proletarian
cannot provide the kind of life for Anna that the Bourgeois
Murk can, Annas parents encourage her to stick to her agreement.
Anna leaves Murk & her families stay
behind in Berlin, and against the backdrop of the Spartacist
uprising, searches for Andreas. In the final
scene theyre consolidated, they walk away together. They play
dramatizes many of grievances of the
Spartacists in their uprising. The soldiers had been stolen
before they left for fighting, symbolizes that
feeling by the working class of having been cheated.
SYNOPSIS
Drums in the night is the American Premiere of Finegan
Krukemeyers new translation of BertoltBrechts expressionistic and
darkly comic anti-war parable. WWI is over Berlin is in Chaos &
Anna must
finally accept that her lover, Kragler who has been missing in
action for 4yrs, will never return. Then one
night, as the moon hangs red in the sky, he appears like a ghost
to find her engaged to another man.
SYMBOLS
Street Kragler & Anna meet in the morning.
Bar Andreas quarrels with Annas parent and the Drunken Munk.
STYLE
Brechts way is present a clichd view of the romatic peot.
He writes of himself in the 3rd person also saw the writer
wedekind performing his works in a style which
he had develop in Cabaret.
PROBLEM
The soldiers returning from the front felt they had been
fighting for nothing.
ATTEMPT SOLUTION
The war profiteer attempts to steal the soldiers fianc.
SHE
The significance of this poem as a marker of the shift in
Brechts work towards a much more
urban, industrialized flavour.
CONCLUSION
Kragler refuses to return to the fithing & they go home
together.
