Mother

Japanese: 《母》 - おふくろ
Mother

…The outline of this theory is first shown in the notes to the opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany (1929), which was composed by K. Weill and performed like The Threepenny Opera. On the eve of the rise of the Nazis, Brecht wrote new forms of politically themed works such as the educational play The Treatment, The Mother (around 1930), a dramatization of M. Gorky's novel of the same name, and St. Johanna in the Slaughterhouse (1929-31). The distinctive feature of all of these works is that they leave it up to the audience to consider the issues raised and reach a process of understanding. Brecht, who went into exile the day after the Reichstag arson attack on February 27, 1933, wrote the ballet The Seven Deadly Sins and the allegorical play The Round and the Pointed by the time he settled in Denmark at the end of the same year. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "mother" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…《三文オペラ》と同じくK.ワイルの作曲によって上演されたオペラ《マハゴニー市の興亡》(1929)の注にまずこの理論の輪郭が示される。ナチス登場の前夜には,教育劇《処置》やM.ゴーリキーの同名の小説を劇化した《母(おふくろ)》(1930ころ),《屠殺場の聖ヨハンナ》(1929‐31)のような政治的主題をテーマとした新形式の作品が書かれたが,いずれも観客自身に,提起された問題を考察し認識に達する過程を委ねているのが特色である。 33年2月27日の国会放火事件の翌日亡命したブレヒトは,同年暮にデンマークに落ち着くまでの間にも,バレエ劇《七つの大罪》や寓意劇《まる頭ととんがり頭》を執筆した。…

※「《母》」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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