This version of Brecht's great anti-war play by playwright David
Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November
1995. It adopts a freer approach to the text than many editions,
adapting the original rather than offering a close translation. In
this chronicle of the Thirty Years War, Mother Courage follows the
armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor
from her canteen wagon. One by one she loses her children to the
war but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berlin
production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage, marked
the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble. Considered by many to be
one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written and Brecht's
masterpiece, it remains a powerful example of Brecht's Epic Theatre
and pioneering theatrical style.
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