abstract:The Caucasian Chalk Circle () is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl who rescues a baby and becomes a better mother than its wealthy natural parents.
"The CaucasianChalkCircle" was conceived as a play with music, and Duncan Sheik, the singer-songwriter who composed the score for "Spring Awakening, " has written new settings of W.H.
German dramatist Bertolt Brecht harpooned the arrogance of the privileged class ("well-born stinkers") in "The CaucasianChalkCircle, " his 1944 absurdist tale of exile, social inequality and misguided justice.