The Decision (play)

The Decision/The Measures Taken
Original titleDie Maßnahme
Written byBertolt Brecht
Directed bySlatan Dudow
Music byHanns Eisler
Date premiered10 December 1930 (1930-12-10)
Place premieredGroßes Schauspielhaus, Berlin
Original languageGerman
GenreLehrstück, agitprop

The Decision (Die Maßnahme), frequently translated as The Measures Taken, is a Lehrstück and agitprop cantata by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. Created in collaboration with composer Hanns Eisler and director Slatan Dudow, it consists of eight sections in prose and unrhymed, free verse, with six major songs. A note to the text by all three collaborators describes it as an "attempt to use a didactic piece to make familiar an attitude of positive intervention."

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