Mother Courage and her children
Subtitle: a chronicle of the 30 Years' War
By: by Bertolt Brecht ; English version by Eric Bentley
Contributors: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956
Edition: Samuel French Acting ed.
Publisher: Samuel French
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9780573698415
Subjects: Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648; Drama; Dreißigjähriger Krieg
Description: Set in the seventeenth century, the play follows Anna Fierling ("Mother Courage"), an itinerant trader, as she pulls her wagon of wares and her children through the blood and carnage of Europe's religious wars. Battered by hardships, brutality, and the degradation and death of her children, she ultimately finds herself alone with the one thing in which she truly believes--her ramshackle wagon with its tattered flag and freight of boots and brandy. Fitting herself in its harness, the old woman manages, with the last of her strength, to drag it onward to the next battle.
Notes: "Drama with music / 18m, 5f, extras / multiple sets"--Page 4 of cover.

Adaptation of: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder.