This performance of Bertolt Brecht's "The good Woman of Setzuan" is part of RWU's Performing Arts Main Season Series II.
It is a comic satire of serious intent, a fantasy morality tale with music set in a China of Brecht's imagination. It asks how the abstract idea of goodness can survive the business of living in a world of economic necessity and social injustice. Does good require evil to survive?
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