Written by Bertolt Brecht
Produced by University of La Verne 2015
Directed by Bo Powell
Winner of The University Dean’s award for excellence in art
Promiscuity Reigns in Brecht’s Baal
Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It concerns a wastrel youth who becomes involved in several sexual affairs and at least one murder. It was written in 1918, when Brecht was a 20-year-old student at Munich University, in response to the expressionist drama The Loner (Der Einsame) by the soon-to-become-Nazi dramatist Hanns Johst.
