y separately published work icon Baal (International) assertion single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 1918... 1918 Baal
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Adaptations

Baal Stefan Gregory (composer), Simon Stone (translator), Tom Wright (translator), 2011 single work drama 'Baal is pure pleasure principle. Meet Baal. Outsider poet, schizophrenic singer/songwriter, middle-class bum. With an insatiable appetite for sex and booze, Baal lives his life for the moment. From strip joint to sewer he leaves a trail of devastation and recklessly dispensed lyricism in his wake. Bertolt Brecht's first play, Baal, rages with the fire of youth. Nothing escapes young Brecht's burning wit and self-immolating irony here. An anti-hero and cult artist at odds with the world, Baal indulges in fleshy decadence spewing surreal poetry and bawdy libretto. Drunken and depraved, he strips romanticism bare.' Source: www.malthousetheatre.com.au/ (Sighted 14/04/2011).

Notes

  • Baal is included in AustLit because of an Australian-written adaptation.

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      • Written in 1918; first performed in 1923.

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