DEPAUW THEATRE 
765.658.4485Mother Courage and Her Children Considered one of Brecht's finest works and one of the great plays of our time, “Mother Courage and Her Children” is a powerful anti-war epic. DePauw Theatre Director Steve Timm is directing the play and has chosen an adaptation by David Hare. In the original text a lone woman, Anna Fierling, tries to achieve the irreconcilable aims of money-making 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, Brecht's masterpiece of silence and survival has only grown in stature since its premier in 1941. As David Hare wrote in his introduction, "In Mother Courage, two of the principal characters are abstract nouns . . . Time and War. In their turn, they are attended by a flotilla of minor characters called Grief, Waste, Money, Religion, and so on. One of the main jobs of a director approaching the play is to find a way of embodying Time and War, so he can show what they do to Mother Courage herself." DePauw Theatre's production moves the setting to the modern day war in Iraq in hopes of demonstrating the relevance of Brecht's masterpiece in our contemporary situation.
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2008-2009 SEASON October 3, 4, 9, 11, 12 November 7, 8, 9 and 13, 14, 15 March 5, 6, 7 and 8
MOORE THEATRE *Evening performances begin at 7:30 pm. Sunday matinees are at 4:00 pm in the Fall Semester and at 2:30 pm in the Spring Semester. |
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