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Actor Training Program Senior Show The Caucasian Chalk Circle   by Bertolt Brecht Directed by Rich Cole, Guest Director, courtesy of Pioneer Theatre Company                     Jan. 17-21, 25-28, 2007 Performance Times: Wed - Sat evenings 7:30 PM Saturday Matinee 2:00 PM (only 2nd Saturday) and Sunday at 7:00 PM BABCOCK Theatre - Map

This play contains adult themes and strong language.

An epic political play on the cruelty of capitalist culture. A hearing to determine ownership of a valley in a war-torn village of Soviet Georgia proceeds to the story of an abandoned royal child. After peace is restored, a court must decide who should have the child—his royal kin who abandoned him, or the peasant who suffered unthinkable hardships to keep him safe.

The University of Utah Department of Theatre presents Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle in the Babcock Theatre, January 17-21 and 25-28. Guest director Rich Cole and the talented cast of theatre students bring Brecht’s fusion of political activism and pure entertainment to the stage at 7:30 pm Wednesdays through Saturdays, 7:00 pm Sundays, and a matinee at 2:00 pm on Saturday the 27^th. Brecht was a pioneer in the development of "epic" theatre, which encouraged the audience to engage its intellect as much as its empathy. He did not want his audiences to "hang their brains up with their hats."  Rather, the audience is expected to consider the social or political consequences of the story, to even be moved to take political action or work for social change.  At the same time, Brecht understood the value of entertainment, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle contains humor, song, romance, spectacle, melodrama—all tools to make theatre engaging and exciting in order to teach a moral lesson.  Tickets are $12 general admission, $6 for students, and are available through Kingsbury Ticket Office, 581-7100 or www.kingtix.com.

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