NATIONAL THEATRE, OLIVIER

South Bank, London, SE1 9PX

Mother Courage and Her Children

MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN

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Tony Kushner's adaptation combines with Deborah Warner's staging to catch war's unpredicablility, fever, ferocity - and perverse magnetism

The Times

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

It isn't easy, starting a war, but nothing worthwhile is easy. And once you're in, you're hooked like a gambler, you can't afford to walk away from the crapshoot once you're deep into it.

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

Dates

Opening night: 9 September 2009
Closing night: 8 December 2009

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