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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.
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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"At last--the definitive translations of one of the 20th century's most influential playwrights...Far superior to the competition." --Theatre Journal
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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. At the end of a century ravaged by war on an unprecedented scale, Bertolt Brecht's great masterpiece of silence and survival seems only to have grown in stature since its premiere in 1941. This version by David Hare was premiered by the National Theatre, London, in November 1995.
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- PublisherMethuen Drama
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0413702901
- ISBN 13 9780413702906
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages108
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