Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

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by Bertolt Brecht
Music by Paul Dessau in an arrangement by Jonas Landerschier and Philipp Plessmann
In German language

In the poverty-stricken province of Sezuan, the water seller Wang waits hopefully for the arrival of the gods. When he believes he has finally found them, he places them with Shen Te. The gods see in the prostitute the "good person" they have been looking for for a long time and allow her to open a tobacco store with a little money. From now on, Shen Te wants to do a lot of good with her store, but quickly encounters all kinds of difficulties when she realizes that with capital comes the profit motive. In order to be a good person in a bad world, she invents her cousin Shui Ta, in whose shoes she slips from then on when she has to decide between humanity and profitability. Brecht wrote this classic from 1938 to 1940 about the rules of capitalism and the injustices it still produces today. The current crises call solidarity and our willingness to act altruistically into question in a particularly urgent way. Director Charlotte Sprenger opens the interim venue "Altes Kino Franklin" with her production of "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan". Brecht's classic is the director's first work at the Nationaltheater Mannheim. This content has been machine translated.