Luzerner Theater

The Good Person of Szechwan

Play by Berthold Brecht  
 
Director: Andreas Herrmann  
Costume: Sabine Fleck  
Music: Martin Baumgartner  
Lighting: Gérard Cleven  
Dramaturgy: Carolin Losch  

Brecht's parable piece, premiered in Zurich in 1943, raises the question of whether a good person can survive in capitalism or whether mercilessness enables goodness in the first place. The gods have had their day. They steal themselves out of their responsibility, refer people to themselves and finally return badly damaged to heaven, therefore back to nothingness. Goodness as an absolute moral law seems impossible.

Luzern, Schweiz | 2013

Photography: Ingo Höhn