Drums in the Night

Drums in the Night is a play in the expressionist style by German poet, playwright, and theatre director Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). Brecht wrote it between 1919 and 1920, and it received its first theatrical production in 1922.

The original text
Original title in German Trommeln in der Nacht.

Performance history in South Africa
1971: Presented by the University of Cape Town’s Speech and Drama Department at the Little Theatre in December, directed by Nicholas Wright.

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