Five of this work's interludes are set under a bridge and in a man's sleeping place, and see that man converse with some immortals, one of whom has lost a leg to a fox-trap by the fifth interlude. In another interlude the title character sings "The S
Five of this work's interludes are set under a bridge and in a man's sleeping place, and see that man converse with some immortals, one of whom has lost a leg to a fox-trap by the fifth interlude. In another interlude the title character sings "The Song of the Defencelessness of the Good and the Gods." At its end, the title character asks the audience to solve the play's central dilemma after three gods leave a court room on a pink cloud. Its protagonist is given money to open a tobacco shop, but in order to suppress her generosity is forced to invent a male alter-ego, who is later accused of her murder. In its first act, a water-seller named Wang brings the gods to the title character, the kindly prostitute Shen Te. For 10 points, name this play replete with mechanisms for generating the distancing effect, a parable by Bertolt Brecht set in a Chinese city.
Five of this work's interludes are set under a bridge and in a man's sleeping place, and see that man converse with some immortals, one of whom has lost a leg to a fox-trap by the fifth interlude.
The Good Person of Szechwan [or Der Gute Mensch von Sezuan; or The Good Woman of Szechwan; or The Good Man of Szechwan; accept Setzuan or even Sichuan for "Szechwan"]