OVERVIEW

• Playwright

  Eugene O'Brien  Gavin Quinn 

• Adapted / Translated From

  Bertolt Brecht

• Adapted From Notes

  Adapted from Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan. 

• Setting

  Dublin, 2017

• Synopsis

  You are invited to meet an actor, a pop singer and a scholar, from China, and two Mongolian accountants. They have come together to make a modern version of Brecht’s parable play, The Good Person of Setzuan first performed by German actors playing Chinese people. Brecht’s original play is a parable set in China between World War I and World War II. The Good House of Happiness is set in Dublin in 2017 as Molly Xiu, a budding actor, receives a challenge from the gods. They favour her with a gift of money, so she opens a new restaurant. But she is not a tough nosed business person, and everyone takes advantage of her, so she is driven to invent a male alter ego, Michael Xun, to be the ruthless dragon that makes the restaurant a success. She is forced to assume this role so often that, as Michael Xun, she is accused of murdering Molly Xiu. 

• Play Type

  Adaptation/Translation
  

  Number Of Acts

  Full-Length

Cast size

• Male

  2

• Female

  5

• Total

  7

Original Production

• Date of First Production

  13 October 2017

• Production Notes

  Produced as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival.

• Producer

  Produced by Pan Pan

• Original Venue

  Smock Alley Theatre
  

• Venue Notes

  Performed in the Main Space. 

Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the play's original production programme and the Dublin Theatre Festival programme.