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Brecht Collected Plays: Mother Courage and Her Children : Part 2 (Brecht, Bertolt//Brecht Collected Plays)
Brecht Collected Plays Mother Courage and Her Children Part 2 - Brecht, Bertolt//Brecht Collected Plays Author:Bertolt Brecht 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... more » of the Berliner Ensemble. "One of the greatest poets and dramatists of our century" (Observer)« less