'an adept new translation by Alistair Beaton'

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 2.10.09

'The Caucasian Chalk Circle, written in 1944 while he was in exile from Germany, gives some epic illumination to socialist ideas about ownership and injustice. But more than that it's a story about love winning out over endemic corruption'

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 2.10.09

The play is translated, with political wit and crisp clarity, by Alistair Beaton . . . The result is a Chalk Circle which makes an unarguable case for the continued relevance both of Brecht's theatrical aesthetics and his allegorical subject matter.

Telegraph

Alistair Beaton's sharp rhythmic translation finds a contemporary relevance too, but not intrusively so.

Stage