In one of this man's plays, a Chicago gangster seizes power from the Cauliflower Trust, while in another, the corrupt Pierpont Mauler is overthrown by the Black Straw Hats.
In one of this man's plays, a Chicago gangster seizes power from the Cauliflower Trust, while in another, the corrupt Pierpont Mauler is overthrown by the Black Straw Hats. This author advocated making characters' choices explicit by verbalizing the "Not/But" element in "A Short Organum for the Theater", which also urged use of the "distancing effect". This author of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui and (*) Saint Joan of the Stockyards described a barmaid's fantasy of a ship destroying a town in the song "Pirate Jenny", which appears in a play in which Polly Peachum's father tries to get Mack the Knife executed. For 10 points, name this German playwright who adapted John Gay's The Beggar's Opera into his The Threepenny Opera.
In one of this man's plays, a Chicago gangster seizes power from the Cauliflower Trust, while in another, the corrupt Pierpont Mauler is overthrown by the Black Straw Hats.
Bertolt Brecht [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht]