German playwright of The Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage, known for the 间离效果 (alienation effect) of his epic theatre, shaped partly by seeing 梅兰芳 perform in Moscow in 1935.
Bùláixītè shì èrshí shìjì zuì yǒu yǐngxiǎng de xìjùjiā zhīyī.
Brecht is one of the most influential playwrights of the 20th century.
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Two of his plays draw on China: 《四川好人》 (The Good Person of Szechwan) is set in Sichuan, and 《高加索灰阑记》 (The Caucasian Chalk Circle) goes back to the Yuan drama 《灰阑记》, where a judge finds a child's true mother with a circle drawn on the ground.
