{"id":2121,"date":"2018-06-19T20:38:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=2121"},"modified":"2018-06-19T20:38:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T20:38:53","slug":"the-caucasian-chalk-circle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=2121","title":{"rendered":"The Caucasian Chalk Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play by the German\u00a0playwright\u00a0<a title=\"Bertolt Brecht\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bertolt_Brecht\">Bertolt Brecht<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lowly young maid, displaced by conflict, rescues an abandoned baby and flees, seeking refuge in the Georgian Caucasus mountains until the war ends and her intended returns.<br \/>\nHowever, years later the baby\u2019s unmotherly mother wants him back to claim his inheritance, and it falls to the controversial judge Azdak to resolve their dispute.<br \/>\nIn an apparently innocent tale of love, motherhood and fate, Brecht challenges the audience to examine some of society&#8217;s core values, such as<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0responsibilities and rights.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>April 5th, 6th &amp; 7th 2018<\/p>\n<p>Dorchester Shire Hall.\u00a0High W St, Dorchester DT1 1UZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Caucasian Chalk Circle, a play by the German\u00a0playwright\u00a0Bertolt Brecht. &#8220;A lowly young maid, displaced by conflict, rescues an abandoned baby and flees, seeking refuge in the Georgian Caucasus mountains until the war ends and her intended returns. However, years later the baby\u2019s unmotherly mother wants him back to claim his inheritance, and it falls &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/?page_id=2121\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Caucasian Chalk Circle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2118,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2121","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5MaE2-yd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2121\/revisions\/2122"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dorchesterdrama.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}