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Bertolt Brecht’s play about the good woman is a parable situated between traditional times and the present. In Linz it will be shown in a production by director Ong Keng Sen.

Brecht conceived this play back in the twenties but it was not until WWII, when he was in exile in Scandinavia that he was able to complete the final version. From then on the question whether or not it was possible to retain one’s moral integrity in this world or whether this would need a changed and different world never left him.

Ong Keng Sen, director, performance theoretician, festival curator and intercultural communicator, has been at the head of the Singapore drama group “TheatreWorks” since 1985. After his extremely successful production of “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” at the Schauspielhaus Vienna in 2005 he will be exploring in Linz another Brecht play from a Chinese perspective and interpreting it from an altogether new point of view. Ong Keng Sen’s work deals with the evolution of new identities and new aesthetics in Asia in the 21st century. He sees a role for himself as a bridge builder between tradition and modernity, between Asia and the rest of the world. His complex productions have been staged all over the world.


WHAT // Parable in ten scenes by Bertolt Brecht
WHEN // Premiere 26 September 09
WHERE // Landestheater Linz

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