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A full performance of the short play, translated by Tom Osborn with music by Frank Wagland. A prospecting trip for oil across the Mongolian Desert ends in the death of a Coolie porter. Was it murde...r or justifiable homicide? A final trial scene decides. The play was written in 1930 and exemplifies in the most direct way both Brecht's political outlook and his theatrical theories. The play is performed in a Brechtian style with back-projected scenes, songs and graphic scene headlines.
A full performance of the short play, translated by Tom Osborn with music by Frank Wagland. A prospecting trip for oil across the Mongolian Desert ends in the death of a Coolie porter. Was it murde...r or justifiable homicide? A final trial scene decides. The play was written in 1930 and exemplifies in the most direct way both Brecht's political outlook and his theatrical theories. The play is performed in a Brechtian style with back-projected scenes, songs and graphic scene headlines.
| Module code and title: | A307, Drama |
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| Item code: | A307; 13 |
| First transmission date: | 21-08-1977 |
| Published: | 1977 |
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| Restrictions on use: | |
| Duration: | 00:47:27 |
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| Producer: | Richard Callanan |
| Contributors: | Peter Bland; Denholm Elliott; Souad Faress; Ben Kingsley; Roy Marsden; Bunny Reed; Malcolm Terris; Patrick Troughton |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/72377 |
| Production number: | 00525_3283 |
| Videofinder number: | 3302 |
| Available to public: | no |
