Ethan Hawke and Vincent D'Onofrio team up for Brecht's 'Baal'

Saw this blip in a recent interview with Ethan Hawke.  Looks like Vincent will be involved with another play.  Odd since it was just done in July of this year in Brooklyn.  Click here

NERDIST

N: So you’re directing a documentary right now, is that right?
EH: I’ve got one I’m working on; I’ll probably work on it for a couple of years. The next thing I’m directing is an adaptation of Brecht’s first play Baal that I’m going to do in New York this winter with Vincent D’Onofrio.

N: As a movie or a play?

EH: As a play.

WIKIPEDIA

Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It concerns a wastrel youth who becomes involved in several sexual affairs and at least one murder. It was written in 1918, when Brecht was a 20-year-old student atMunich University, in response to the expressionist drama The Loner (Der Einsame) by the soon-to-become-Nazi dramatist Hanns Johst.

The play is written in a form of heightened prose and includes four songs and an introductory choral hymn ("Hymn of Baal the Great"), set to melodies composed by Brecht himself. Brecht wrote it prior to developing the dramaturgical techniques of epic theatre that characterize his later work, although he did re-work the play in 1926.
Characters

Baal - poet Mech - merchant and publisher Emilie - Mech's wife Dr. Piller - critic Johannes Schmidt Pschierer - director of the water rates A Young Man A Young Woman Johanna Ekart Luise - a waitress