Mother Courage and Her Children

T01853747605
With war raging all around her, Mother Courage sells food and clothing to soldiers, switching allegiance when it suits her and striving to keep her business and children alive at all costs. Bloody battlefields are her marketplace, her wagon, her stall. Her remarkable and brutal story is told through humour and song; her story is one of choices and remains a powerful reminder of human resilience and loss in times of war. An epic masterpiece of one woman's survival.

Author

Bertolt Brecht

Archive :: production:T01853747605, play:S4267, venue:V373

Production details

Running time 3hrs 10mins inclu. interval Part of Travelex £10 Season

Special Performances

7 Oct 09 Open Captioned (STAGETEXT)

Performance

Venue	Olivier (National Theatre)
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	9th September 2009
Opened	25th September 2009
To	8th December 2009
Prices	From £10.00. To £30.00.
What is currently on at Olivier (National Theatre) (V373)

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

Producer	National Theatre
Translation	Tony Kushner
Director	Deborah Warner
Design	Tom Pye
Costume	Ruth Myers
Lighting	Jean Kalman
Music	Duke Special (songs)
Music	Mel Mercier (musicscape)
Design	Lysander Ashton (video)
Design	Mark Grimmer (video)
Sound	Andrew Bruce
Sound	Nick Lidster
Performer	Fiona Shaw (Mother Courage)
Performer	Anthony Mark Barrow
Performer	William J Cassidy
Performer	Johannes Flaschberger
Performer	Stephen Kennedy (chaplain)
Performer	Jonathan Gunthorpe
Performer	Stephen Kennedy
Performer	Youssef Kerkour
Performer	Martin Marquez
Performer	Louis McKenzie
Performer	Lyle McPhail
Performer	Siobhan McSweeney
Performer	Harry Melling
Performer	eleanor Montgomery
Performer	Stephen O'Toole
Performer	Charlotte Randle
Performer	Guy Rhys
Performer	Clifford Samuel
Performer	Gary Sefton
Performer	Roger Sloman
Performer	Colin Stinton
Performer	Sophie Stone
Performer	Morgan Watkins
Performer	Sargon Yelda

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