Mother Courage and Her Children is widely regarded as Brecht's best
work, a theatrical landmark and one of the most powerful anti-war
plays in history. This translation by Michael Hofmann was published
to coincide with the UK tour by English Touring Theatre in 2006. In
this chronicle of the Thirty Years War of the seventeenth century,
Mother Courage follows the armies back and forth across Europe,
selling provisions and liquor from her canteen wagon. As the action
of the play progresses between the years 1624 and 1646 she loses
her children to the war but remains indomitable, refusing to part
with her livelihood - the wagon. The play is one of the most
celebrated examples of Epic Theatre and of Brecht's use of
alienation effect to focus attention on the issues of the play
above the individual characters. It remains regarded as one of the
greatest plays of the twentieth century and one of the great
anti-war plays of all time. The Berlin production of 1949, with
Helene Weigel as Mother Courage, marked the foundation of the
Berliner Ensemble. Translated by the celebrated, German-born
translator Michael Hofmann who has won multiple awards for his
translation of works from German into English, the stage production
was acclaimed for his 'gutsy,colloquial translation' (The Stage).
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