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Hanyang University Department of Theatre's Second Global Workshop, <The Chalk Circle>, adapted from Bertolt Brecht's "The Caucasian Chalk Circle".
'Hear now the story of the trial
The trial that decides the fate of the child
The trial that determines the rightful mother
The Trial that deploys the famous test:
The test of the chalk circle."
The play tells the story of a servant girl named Grushna, who risks everything to save and protect the abandoned son of the king during the heat of a civil war. When the peace is restored, the kids' mother comes to claim him. A judge decides to rely on an old tradition, the trial of the chalk circle, to decide who the true mother of the kid is.
They put the child in the center of the circle and each woman has to pull at the child from different sides, and Grushna fails to pull for fear of hurting the boy. The judge declares that Grushna is the true mother since she shown true motherly feelings.
During the trial, while inside the circle the circle, nothing will matter but their actions; they are all stripped from their economic and social status.
