An original composition by Sudipto Das, for the Forum Three production, "Schweyk The Warrior", the war musical by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, translated to English by William Rowlinson, directed by Ranjon Ghoshal, and staged in Bangalore on 13th Jan, 2019.
In Jaroslav Hašek’s original The Good Soldier Švejk, Švejk, a soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army drifts through the carnage of the First World War, a picaresque study in brio that parodies the noble claims of the warring nations, while depicting the horror of their conflict.
Brecht masterfully deploys this character in the Second World War as a counter-actor to the Nazi regime decimating Europe.
Written while Brecht was exiled in the United States during the Second World War, this version was translated by William Rowlinson.
