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A Man's a Man (Bentley)

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  10any gender (adult)

Eric Bentley, Bertolt Brecht

The place is India and the time is the nineteen twenties. Tommy learns to be Tommy and forgets to be himself, or what his mother told him he should be, because His Majesty's army has sold him in this attack against the militarized man and that organization which controls his thinking and so holds th…

A Man's a Man (Bentley)

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    10any gender (adult)

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The place is India and the time is the nineteen twenties. Tommy learns to be Tommy and forgets to be himself, or what his mother told him he should be, because His Majesty's army has sold him in this attack against the militarized man and that organization which controls his thinking and so holds the balance of his fate in its dumb hands.

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Eric Bentley

Eric Bentley
Eric Bentley was born in England in 1916, became an American citizen in 1948, in 1998 was inducted into the (American) Theatre Hall of Fame, and in 2011 won a gold medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Scholar, critic, teacher, performer, translator and, final ...
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Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright, poet and director, was born in Augsburg, Germany in February 1898. He established himself as a playwright during the 1920s and early 1930s with plays such as Baal, Man is Man, The Threepenny Opera and The Mother. In 1933, as Hitler came ...
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