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also discover a bundle of Shen Teh's clothing under Shui Ta's desk, which makes them even more suspicious. During the process of her trial, the gods appear in the robes of the judges, and Shui Ta says that he will make a confession if the room is cleared except for the judges. When the townspeople have gone, Shui Ta reveals herself to the gods, who are confronted by the dilemma that their seemingly arbitrary divine behavior has caused: they have created impossible circumstances for those who wish to live "good" lives, yet they refuse to intervene directly to protect their followers from the vulnerability that this "goodness" engenders.
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services for longer periods until at last her true personality seems to be consumed by her cousin's severity. Where Shen Teh is soft, compassionate, and vulnerable, Shui Ta is unemotional and pragmatic, even vicious; it seems that only Shui Ta is made to survive in the world in which they live. In what seems no time at all, he has built her humble shop into a full-scale tobacco factory with many employees.
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shop which they intend as both gift and test: will Shen Teh be able to maintain her goodness with these newfound means, however slight they may be? If she succeeds, the gods' confidence in humanity would be restored. Though at first Shen Teh seems to live up to the gods' expectations, her generosity
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Eventually one of the employees hears Shen Teh crying, but when he enters only Shui Ta is present. The employee demands to know what he has done with Shen Teh, and when he cannot prove where she is, he is taken to court on the charge of having hidden or possibly murdered his cousin. The townspeople
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which attracts crime and police supervision. In a sense, Shen Teh quickly fails the test, as she is forced to introduce the invented cousin Shui Ta as overseer and protector of her interests. Shen Teh dons a costume of male clothing, a mask, and a forceful voice to take on the role of Shui Ta. Shui
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At first, Shui Ta only appears when Shen Teh is in a particularly desperate situation, but as the action of the play develops, Shen Teh becomes unable to keep up with the demands made on her and is overwhelmed by the promises she makes to others. Therefore, she is compelled to call on her cousin's
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folks — we see a cardboard box and all we see is a cardboard box. But the ingenuity and adaptation that people who live in that environment see in a cardboard box is really exciting to me. Our stage may at first glance look like disorderly junk, but it has a curated sense of necessity."
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Brecht seems to have become aware that Sichuan was actually a province over the course of several drafts (appended in Willet 1994) and the version eventually published by Suhrkamp has "The capital of Sezuan" (though there are no details that suggest the action might take place in
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Shen Teh also meets an unemployed male pilot, Yang Sun, with whom she quickly falls in love after preventing him from hanging himself. However, Yang Sun doesn't return Shen Teh's feelings but simply uses her for money and Shen Teh quickly falls pregnant with his child.
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that pervades the play," Jain set the story in a "Fictional Pan-Asian Narnia" incorporating multiple components from many Asian cultures — for example, one review took stock that "Shui Ta (played by Bi Jean Ngo) speaks a combination of
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cannot allow her to turn away anyone in need. Shen Teh was going to see a customer, but decides to help out instead; however, confusion follows, leaving Wong fleeing from the illustrious Ones and leaving his water
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In 2016, Ernie Nolan directed the play at the Cor Theater in Chicago. The role of Shen Te/Shui Ta was played by a male actor (Will Von Vogt) and the setting was a contemporary Chicago ghetto.
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possibilities of this problem, and on the assumption that the spectator will be moved to see that the current structure of society must be changed in order to resolve the problem.
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notes of the latter portrayal that, "t's played up for laughs while also serving as a multifaceted, pointed criticism of white tourists in Asia, western indifference and
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Ta arrives at the shop, coldly explains that his cousin has gone out of town on a short trip, curtly turns out the hangers-on, and quickly restores order to the shop.
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and is interpreted in English by those around him," though stage-mounted digital signs provide the script in English throughout, essentially serving as both
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The play opens with Wong, a water seller, explaining to the audience that he is on the city outskirts awaiting the foretold appearance of several important
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Shen Teh is rewarded for her hospitality, as the gods take it as a sure sign of goodness. They give her money and she buys a humble
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contrast in viewpoints between the Western audience and the reality that exists in many developing Asian nations
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An Introduction to the Social and Political Philosophy of Bertolt Brecht: Revolution and Aesthetics
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Brecht, Bertolt, and Eric Bentley. The Good Woman of Setzuan. New York: Grove Press, 1965. Print.
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Kellie Mecleary notes that this portrayal of the Three Gods also serves to represent "the
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in 1975, 1976, and 1978. The company also took the production on tour in Europe in 1976.
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Orientalist and frankly racist portrayals of Asian characters by non-Asian actors
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in social and economic terms. Shen Teh's altruism conflicts with Shui Ta's
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Composer/lyricist Michael Rice created a full-length musical version with
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directed another Indian adaptation by Amitabha Srivastava of the
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is evident in the play's definition of contemporary morality and
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reinterpreted the play with well-known activist and performer
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production, the source of the material also provides a stark
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Episode five of the eighth season of the television series
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The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects.
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The Good Person of Sichuan: The National Theatre Version
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quickly turns her small shop into a messy, overcrowded
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The first English-language performance in Britain, as
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Index

The Good Woman of Setzuan
‹See Tfd›
German
play
German
dramatist
Bertolt Brecht
Margarete Steffin
Ruth Berlau
Zürich Schauspielhaus
Switzerland
Huldreich Georg Früh
Paul Dessau
non-Aristotelian drama
epic theatre
parable
Sichuan
commodity
Chinese
alter ego
Chinese
goodness
historical materialism
altruism
capitalist
exploitation
economic systems determine a society's morality
gods
charity
carrying pole

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