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Mother Courage And Her Children (Tr. Watson)
Full-Length Play, Drama / 6w, 19m
Bertolt Brecht, Peter Watson
Mother Courage And Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Peter Watson
A lone woman, Anna Fierling, tries to achieve the irreconcilable aims of making money and keeping her family alive during the nightmare of the Thirty Years War.
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Cast Size
6w, 19m -
Subgenre
Period -
Target Audience
Adult, Senior, Teen (Age 14-18)
Details
Summary
For years through the terrible Thirty Years War, Mother Courage has followed the Swedish armies with her mobile canteen, and her three children. Life during war is reduced simply to a series of business transactions: soldiers rob peasants and steal from their own stores, peasants sell their last treasured possessions. Mothe Courage's business and motherly instincts constantly betray her. Finally, alone, she hitches herself to her wagon and continues to follow the army.
Cast Attributes
- Time Period 17th Century
- Setting Period 1624-1636
- Features Period Costumes
Licensing & Materials
- Minimum Fee: £70 per performance plus VAT when applicable.
Authors
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright, poet and director, was born in Augsburg, Germany in February 1898. He established himself as a playwright during the 1920s and early 1930s with plays such as Baal, Man is Man, The Threepenny Opera and The Mother. In 1933, as Hitler came ...
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