Theatre: Mother Courage and Her Children

October 8, 2009

Mother Courage and Her Children
by Bertolt Brecht
in a translation by Tony Kushner

Fiona Shaw returns to the National Theatre to take the title role in Tony Kushner’s inventive and vigorous translation of Bertolt Brecht’s uncompromising masterpiece.mothercourage_notype

Mother Courage, one of the most astonishing stage creations of the twentieth century, drags her cart across the battlefields, profiteering from a war that destroys her children, one by one.

New live music by Duke Special and his band infuses this wildfire production from the team whose many international credits include Happy Days and Medea

National Theatre, 115 Shaftesbury Avenue, Cambridge Circus, London WC2H 8AF

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