[ MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN BY BRECHT, BERTOLT](AUTHOR)PAPERBACK

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<br/>the armies back and forth across Europe, selling provisions and liquor<br/>from her canteen wagon. One by one she loses her children to the war<br/>but will not part with her livelihood - the wagon. The Berlin<br/>production of 1949, with Helene Weigel as Mother Courage, marked the<br/>foundation of the Berliner Ensemble.<br/>Considered by many to<br/>be one of the greatest anti-war plays ever written and Brecht's<br/>masterpiece, it remains a powerful example of Brecht's Epic Theatre and pioneering theatrical style.