Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex
These performances of Mother Courage on 19 and 20 June at 10am are for schools audiences and bookings can only be made by school staff. If you wish to attend the public showing of Mother Courage, please visit the webpage for the performance on 20 June at 7.30pm.
For more information please contact the Lakeside Theatre Box Office on (01206) 873261 or arts@essex.ac.uk.
The world turns, torn apart by endless war.
Anna Fierling, known as Mother Courage, struggles to keep her business afloat – and her three children alive.
But what happens to the innocent when profit is valued above people?
“In the dark times
Will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
About the dark times.”
Regarded by some as the greatest anti-war play of the twentieth century, Brecht’s darkly comic, poetic masterpiece about the brutality and beauty of humanity takes to the stage of the Lakeside in a new concise version.
