The Elephant Calf

The Elephant Calf (German: Das Elefantenkalb), also known as The Baby Elephant, is an early one-act surrealistic prose farce written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It originally formed the penultimate scene of Brecht's full-length play Man Equals Man, but by 1926 Brecht had separated it to an appendix to the published text. It was performed as part of Man Equals Man that same year. It is an interlude form of play within a play and in a later note Brecht suggests that it is "to be played in the foyer". He has also given it the subtitle "or The provability of any and every contention".

References

• Willett, John. 1967. The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects. Third ed. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-34360-X. p. 28.

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Bertolt Brecht

Dramatic
works

• Baal
• Drums in the Night
• A Wedding
• Driving Out a Devil
• Lux in Tenebris
• Mysteries of a Barbershop
• In the Jungle of Cities
• Edward II
• Man Equals Man
• Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer
• The Elephant Calf
• Little Mahagonny
• The Threepenny Opera
• The Flight Across the Ocean
• The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent
• Happy End
• Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
• Der Jasager / Der Neinsager
• The Decision
• Saint Joan of the Stockyards
• The Exception and the Rule
• The Mother
• Kuhle Wampe
• The Seven Deadly Sins
• Round Heads and Pointed Heads
• The Horatians and the Curiatians
• Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
• Señora Carrar's Rifles
• Life of Galileo
• How Much Is Your Iron?
• Dansen
• Mother Courage and Her Children
• The Trial of Lucullus
• Mr Puntila and His Man Matti
• The Good Person of Szechwan
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
• Hangmen Also Die!
• The Visions of Simone Machard
• The Duchess of Malfi
• Schweyk in the Second World War
• The Caucasian Chalk Circle
• Antigone
• The Days of the Commune
• The Tutor
• Die Verurteilung des Lukullus
• Report from Herrnburg
• Coriolanus
• The Trial of Joan of Arc at Rouen, 1431
• Turandot
• Don Juan
• Trumpets and Drums

Poems, songs

• "Reminiscence of Marie A."
• "Alabama Song"
• "Pirate Jenny"
• "What Keeps Mankind Alive?"
• "Solidaritätslied"
• "Einheitsfrontlied"
• "Kinderhymne"
• "Die Lösung"

Theories and
techniques

• Epic theatre
• Lehrstücke
• Non-Aristotelian drama

• Complex seeing
• Defamiliarization
• Demonstration
• Fabel
• Gestus
• Historicization
• Interruptions
• Not / But
• Refunctioning
• Separation of the elements

• Messingkauf Dialogues
• The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre
• A Short Organum for the Theatre
• Street scene

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