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The Exception and the Rule (Bentley)

Short Play, Drama  /  1w, 12m

Eric Bentley, Bertolt Brecht

A ruthless entrepreneur drives his guide and a slave across the desert
with wares to beat the competition. When the slave is murdered, the
judge rules in favor of the entrepreneur in defiance of evidence to the
contrary.

The Exception and the Rule (Bentley)

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A ruthless entrepreneur drives his guide and a slave across the desert with wares to beat the competition. When the slave is murdered, the judge rules in favor of the entrepreneur in defiance of evidence to the contrary.

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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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