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If you keep your soul clean
who will do the dirty work?
The GOOD SOUL of SZECHUAN
by Bertolt Brecht
translated by David Harrower
directed by Shade Murray
April 24, 2010
through May 29
Friday 8pm, Saturday 4pm & 8pm, Sunday 7pm
Tickets $20 ($15 student/senior)
Money may not buy happiness but it sure buys friends.
A trio of Gods roll through the mean old town of Szechuan searching for just one good person. They find it in Shen Te, a destitute prostitute with the obligatory heart of gold. Shen Te's kindness so moves the three celestials that they reward her with enough cash to make a new life. But when her financial windfall stirs up a storm of moochers, leeches and fair-weather lovers, Shen Te calls on her hard-hearted (and oddly familiar) cousin Shui Ta to keep the wolves at bay. But if it needs the kind of protection Shui Ta practices, is goodness really any good at all?
Shade Murray, director of our award-winning and critically acclaimed productions of R.U.R., Marathon ‘33 and Detective Story returns to Strawdog with a new translation of Brecht’s classic by Scottish playwright David Harrower — author of our award-winning production of Knives in Hens. With music, comedy and Strawdog’s celebrated acting ensemble we explore the wild contortions that living with (and without) money forces us all into. Timely? Maybe a little. |
