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Brecht’s free-verse adaptation recounts Edward II’s troubled reign and death, the rise and fall of his favourite Gaveston and of Roger Mortimer, and the disordered fate of Queen Isabella, against the backdrop of England in 1307–1326.
In occupied France in 1940, adolescent Simone works at a gas station as German forces approach. Inspired by a book about Joan of Arc, she imagines people around her in Joan’s story and sets fire to a hidden gasoline supply before the Germans can seize it.
Brecht’s free-verse adaptation recounts Edward II’s troubled reign and death, the rise and fall of his favourite Gaveston and of Roger Mortimer, and the disordered fate of Queen Isabella, against the backdrop of England in 1307–1326.
In occupied France in 1940, adolescent Simone works at a gas station as German forces approach. Inspired by a book about Joan of Arc, she imagines people around her in Joan’s story and sets fire to a hidden gasoline supply before the Germans can seize it.