Mother Courage and Her Children

The Stanford Department of Drama Presents:

Mother Courage and Her Children

by Bertolt Brecht

directed by Arden Thomas

Old Mother Courage travels the wastelands with her grown children and her cart full of provisions, following whichever army happens to be winning. She tries hard to keep uninvolved, but she can't control her children, who want to make their own decisions. When a crisis looms, Courage just can't decide between saving her children and making that extra buck. Mother Courage is Brecht's world-famous political cartoon of a play, a vaudeville-infused tragedy about the business of war.

February 10-12 and 17-19

8pm, Pigott Theater

Memorial Hall, Stanford

Please join us on Friday, February 18 for a post-show discussion with artist-in-residence Cherrie Moraga and with Professor Carl Weber, who worked extensively with Brecht and who directed Mother Courage in 1957.