The title character of one of his works is forced to invent a cousin to allow her to brutally enforce order in her tobacco business while maintaining the appearance of virtue.
One play by this author features the trial of Fish for supposedly burning down a warehouse. The title character of one of his works is forced to invent a cousin to allow her to brutally enforce order in her tobacco business while maintaining the appearance of virtue. In both those plays by him, in which Giri and Givola help the title character take over the Cauliflower Trust and the one about Shen Te, he employed constant deliberate breaking of the fourth wall to achieve what he called the "distancing" or "alienation" effect in a genre he called "epic theatre". Polly Peachum and Mack the Knife feature in one of his collaborations with composer Kurt Weill. For 10 points, name this playwright of The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, The Good Person of Szechuan, and The Threepenny Opera.
One play by this author features the trial of Fish for supposedly burning down a warehouse.
Bertholt Brecht