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	ArtScope.net: Mother Courage and Her Children
		Her daughter Kattrin returns from a trip into town to buy supplies with both the goods and a nasty scar on her face; she was attacked on the way home.
		Several years later, while Mother Courage is in town conducting business, Kattrin is shot down by the enemy soldiers when she beats a drum on a rooftop to wake the town, allowing it to defend its walls and to use its cannon.
		Her tendency to move readily from speech to song is an admirable talent that subverts the purpose of both speech and song in the epic theatre.
	www.artscope.net /PAREVIEWS/mothercourage101801.shtml (1532 words)

	Mother Courage and Her Children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) was a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) with significant contributions from his mistress at the time, Margarete Steffin.
		It follows the fortunes of Anna Fierling, nicknamed "Mother Courage," —a wily canteen woman with the Swedish Army who is determined to make her living from the war.
		Meanwhile, Mother Courage is not depicted as a noble character—here the Brechtian epic theatre sets itself apart from the ancient Greek tragedies in which the heroes are far above the average.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mother_Courage_and_Her_Children (723 words)

	BBC - Nottingham Stage - Mother Courage and Her Children
		With her sense of humour, that allows her to survive the most difficult of situations, she succeeds in surviving at the cost of her children.
		Her younger son soon becomes a paymaster for the army and when rebels attack he foolishly hides the army pay box in the wagon.
		Mother Courage stocks up with goods on the advise of the chaplain expecting the war to continue.The opposite happens and she is bankrupted.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/stage/2004/02/mother_courage_review.shtml (603 words)

	Theatre Arts: Mother
		Mother Courage differs from Nora in that while Nora's problems derive from the culture in which she lives, Mother Courage is experiencing the retribution for her own character flaws.
		Her whole awareness is shaped by her identification with the glory days of her southern belle youth, of a time and place which has vanished and to dwell upon which can only be painful and counterproductive.
		Mother Courage turns down the cook's proposal to open a tavern with her not so much for her daughter's sake, as for her own: she would not be boss anymore.
	www.cyberpat.com /essays/mother.html (940 words)

	Mother Courage and Her Children - Bertolt Brecht
		She is sympathetic insofar as the situation is not one of her making and any choices or sacrifices she is shown to make seem as much in the name of survival as profit.
		While damned in our eyes almost from her first appearance as a type of gypsy trader/fortune-teller, there is something admirable about her resilience which is difficult to completely condemn under the circumstances.
		Her evident love for her children makes her sympathetic too, but of course the paradox is that each of them dies because she is wrapped up in business wrangling of one kind or another.
	www.culturevulture.net /Theater/MotherCourage.htm (1301 words)

	Failure as Epic Theatre -- especially in Brecht's [Mother Courage and her Children] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		So Mother Courage has two characteristics: one is love for her children and the other is attachment to business which is connected to the war.
		Because it is the world that is abnormal, the audience come to understand her difficult situation.[12] Though Brecht emphasizes Catherine as the symbol of social betterment contrasted with Mother Courage's selfish attitude toward society,[13] it's not effective because Mother Courage is the protagonist who can be more attractive to the audience.
		7 Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children, tr.
	www.lancs.ac.uk /postgrad/jijh1/writings/article/epice.htm (1534 words)

	The American Spectator
		In this case Mother Courage is played as a hero -- emotionally she feels she is the indomitable Mother Courage who triumphs over the adversity of losing her three children in an interminable war, and is able to go on in spite of her suffering and pain.
		She played a merchant, a strong crafty woman who loses her children to the war one after another and still goes on believing in the profit to be derived from war....Mother Courage learns nothing from her misery...even at the end she does not understand.
		Streep played Mother Courage as the long-suffering indomitable hero as she felt she was in those final moments, left standing alone on the stage triumphantly.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=10255 (2609 words)

	Mother Courage and Her Children
		The gloomy world of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children is as unremittingly awful as that of Samuel Beckett's plays, and it is illuminated and relieved by very much the same kind of mordant wit, and a pretty similar kind of gritty and indomitable (and perhaps foolhardy) survivalism.
		Jonathon Roberts as Eilif, Mother Courage's first son, who is lured off to join the army by promises of glory and becomes a war criminal in a way poignantly recognizable against the background of the last decade's news from the Balkans, is strong and pathetic.
		The grotesque irony of her continuing to bear the weight of her children, to bear as well her guilt for her part in their deaths, is so over the top that mere human sympathy seems beside the point.
	www.stthomasu.ca /~hunt/reviews/mothcour.htm (1209 words)

	SparkNotes: Mother Courage: Themes, Motifs, and Symbols
		Mother Courage is the play's primary small businesswoman, parasitically living off of the war with her canteen wagon.
		Her practices emerge from the social conditions that determine the characters, committing her to the war.
		Her kindness involves an impulse to mother in opposition to her mother's coldhearted business sense.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/mothercourage/themes.html (1137 words)

	Theatre Mirror Reviews - "Mother Courage And Her Children"
		Mother Courage loses loved ones and witnesses the depravity of commerce in an age of slaughter but never from a position of judgement.
		As Mother Courage, she is the only one of her family to survive this war and at the end of the show, she continues to pull her cart, condemned to continue to labor for eternity.
		Her interactions with the whole cast are splendid and her performance captures the audience with its power.
	www.theatermirror.com /TAmctgp.htm (873 words)

	Mother Courage and Her Children - Nottingham Articles - LeftLion.co.uk
		Her philosophy is amoral, she simply wishes to survive and sees an opportunity in the terrible suffering of war.
		One by one, each of her children are lost to the war but she continues to see it as her benefactor.
		Her business acumen is her undoing, haggling over the ransom to be paid for her son's life, she loses the chance to save him.
	www.leftlion.co.uk /articles.cfm/id/122 (358 words)

	Mother Courage and her Children
		A hand-held spot proves an efficient yet imaginative method to separate the action on the stage when Mother Courage (Kathryn Hunter) is in the kitchen area with Cook (Marcello Magni) while her son Eilif (Nicholas R Bailey) is being commended by the General (Simon Walter) in his tent.
		Kathryn Hunter needs all her courage to convincingly say words such as 'get real' (I winced with er), and there were several other occasions where anachronistic language was used inappropriately.
		So, in scene eleven, when we see her dumb daughter, Kattrin (Hayley Carmichael) slip away to the cart to retrieve her own drum we instinctively feel uncomfortable - especially as the Peasant (Clive Mendus) and his wife (Rachel Sanders) are praying to God to save the threatened townsmen at the time.
	www.dailyinfo.co.uk /reviews/theatre/mothercourage2.html (916 words)

	Mother Courage and Her Children
		Mother Courage adapts to the War society and thrives commercially within its terms.
		Mother Courage's' drive for survival in extraordinary times creates a perverted morality and it is the exploration of this drive that gives the play both its tragedy and its humour.
		To do justice to Mother Courage, it has to be played out in a war setting.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2003-02/mothercourage.htm (715 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Mother Courage and Her Children Study Guide
		Her philosophy, so different from what most people believe, explains that courage, heroism and wisdom are all virtues derived from mistakes made by the commanders.
		Mother Courage loses Eilif when she tries to sell a belt and the peasants are defeated by Eilif when he pretends to negotiate with them.
		Mother Courage never learns this lesson, even though she loses all of her children to the army by the end.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/mothercourage/section3.html (951 words)

	Different Views of Tradition in "Mother Courage and Her Children" and "Blood Wedding" Essay by Federico Garcia Lorca \| ...
		Mother Courage and Yvette are two characters that are individualistic and have to survive.
		In Mother Courage and her Children, Yvette is not going against any social or moral norms because there are not any, but if there was a society as in, Blood Wedding then Yvette would be isolated from society.
		It is because of this Mother Courage acts courageously according to the demands of the time of war that her name becomes an epithet.
	www.bookrags.com /essay-2005/7/27/34015/3690 (1397 words)

	Mother Courage and Her Children
		Her stage presence is ineffable: Streep can infuse innocuous, incidental lines with stomach-churning acid or heartbeat-raising kindness and make it work.
		And her trademark rangy voice is confined to a lower register; when she sings, you can almost hear her Mama Rose, the mother-monster.
		Courage was needed to remount Mother Courage; courage is required to endure it.
	www.backstage.com /bso/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003020568&schema= (518 words)

	Mother Courage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mother Courage (German Mutter Courage) is a character from a Grimmelshausen novel Lebensbeschreibung der Ertzbetrügerin und Landstörtzerin Courasche (The Runagate Courage) dating from around 1670.
		Mother Courage is cast as a walking contradiction by Brecht.
		She is torn between protecting her children from the war and making a profit out of the war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mother_Courage (122 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Mother Courage and Her Children - 8/21/06
		Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Mother Courage and Her Children - 8/21/06
		Her ability, uniquely honed among contemporary actors in any medium, to manage multiple emotional tennis matches in which the weakest volleys smash expectations and the strongest coddle them, has deservedly earned her a reputation as queen of stage and screen.
		As Streep presents her, Mother Courage is as innocent as she is self-aware and as blameless as she is complicit, making her actions as sensible as they are frightening.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /ob/08_21_06.html (1082 words)

	Plucking up her Mother Courage - Arts - Entertainment - smh.com.au
		From the moment Robyn Nevin took over the role of artistic director of the STC in 1999, she has talked about her dream of establishing a permanent company of actors that would be contracted exclusively to the STC to perform in at least two seasons of works.
		Rabe's excitement about the new venture is more to do with her feeling that what is about to take place in the Australian theatre is, as she has said, "a bold experiment" - and she wants to be part of it.
		How Rabe finds where her special music fits in and becomes integral to the "bold experiment" of the Actors Company is now the challenge ahead of her.
	www.smh.com.au /news/arts/plucking-up-her-mother-courage/2005/12/09/1134086795002.html (1431 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - Mother Courage and Her Children
		In "Mother Courage and Her Children," it's the main event, its relevance to the Iraq conflict amplified in Tony Kushner's vigorous new translation.
		It's hard to be unmoved by Streep's silent tears, her face hauntingly framed by an intimate spotlight, as she's forced to deny any link to her son Swiss Cheese (Geoffrey Arend), his dead body splayed by soldiers across the hood of a jeep.
		As Courage kneels over the corpse of her mute daughter Kattrin (Alexandria Wailes), folding the girl's hands and wrapping her body, she sings an unaccompanied lament that becomes increasingly lacerating, escalating into a keening, almost animalistic wail.
	www.variety.com /review/VE1117931358?categoryid=1265 (1228 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Mother Courage and Her Children - 2/14/04
		Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Mother Courage and Her Children - 2/14/04
		If one wishes that her performance were a bit more nuanced to help break up the repetitive monotony of the play's 12 successive scenes, she does convey the essence of Brecht's title figure who does everything in her power to stay alive and protect her children.
		Mother Courage's two love interests, the Chaplain (Michael Early) and Cook (Oberon K.A. Adjepong), both bring a sense of humanity to their portrayals, which make for interesting and compelling figures.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /ob/02_14a_04.html (816 words)

	Theater \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In Mother Courage, which he wrote on the cusp on World War II, he leaves the actual war in the background, preferring to concentrate on the trickle-down effect of “kings and generals and popes” on ordinary citizens trying to survive.
		In Anna Fierling (nicknamed Mother Courage for what was in fact an act of mercenary panic), he puts forth a bottom-rung war profiteer, a battlefield-canteen owner who can’t afford to despise the conflict because she lives off it.
		And in her motley trio of children — bloody Eilif; honest Swiss Cheese; and Kattrin, who “suffers from too much pity” — he sets up a rag-tag Family of Man who’re trying to dodge the ever-present bullet.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/theater/documents/00630946.htm (837 words)

	Mother Courage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mother Courage is a marathon role—on stage for nearly all of those 3+ hours, and running the gamut from broad comedy to deep tragedy to philosophical satire...and she sings, too.
		Her goal, she says (and appears to believe) is to protect them from the wicked world, but attending to moneymaking ultimately prevents her from attending to their well-being, which is both her tragedy and Brecht's main point about the ugly consequence of capitalist endeavor.
		The other happens near the end of the show, when Mother Courage and her current boyfriend/hanger-on, a former army cook, are reduced to literally singing for their supper, begging on a snowy night beneath the windows of a house.
	www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/moth3305.htm (1070 words)

	Mother Courage and Her Children: review on TheaterMania.com
		This actress realizes that Mother Courage is an elixir saleswoman; she plays that part right down to addressing audience members as it they're her next pigeons.
		In her final scene, when she's climbed on a roof to bang a drum as a warning of imminent danger, she's as desolate a figure as Brecht might have hoped for.
		Mother Courage and her children are mythic figures living and dying on a mythic landscape.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm?int_news_id=4364 (1267 words)

	USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Mother Courage and Her Children
		As the huckstering Mother Courage made her way through Sweden, Poland and Germany in her trusty wagon, with her three grown children, Eilif, Swiss Cheese and the mute Kattrin, she struggled to protect them from the dangers of the battlefield, while paradoxically profiteering off the war.
		Despite her best efforts, her children were, one by one, taken away from her.
		Streep was surrounded by a blue-chip cast delivering some of their best work, including her "Sophie's Choice" co-star, Kevin Kline, as the Cook, and Austin Pendleton as an army chaplain who joined Mother Courage's entourage (at one point singing a song about the Passion).
	www.usccb.org /movies/mothercourageandherchildren.shtml (457 words)

	MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Written on the eve of World War II in 1939, Brecht's Mother Courage offers a powerful reminder of how humanity is worn down by war and what is lost by those who "survive" it.
		As jaundiced as Mother Courage's view is of war, and as devoted as she is to her children, she needs it to survive.
		Particularly well-achieved was a palpable sense of a trek across land and years with the wagon Mother Courage and her children use as a combination shop/home.
	www.oobr.com /top/volTwo/seventeen/OOBR-Mother.html (508 words)

	Mother Courage and Her Children, a CurtainUp review
		Mother Courage is a play about war and peace, money, religion and mothers.
		Mother Courage is every young soldier's mother and Halliburton rolled into one.
		Gwendolyn Mulamba's Courage is an engaging performance, too pragmatic to be sentimental or sympathetic (and yes, that's a good thing) and with excellent singing to boot.
	www.curtainup.com /mothercouragecth.html (683 words)

	Mother Courage and Her Children Summary & Essays - Bertolt Brecht
		Mother Courage and Her Children Summary & Essays - Bertolt Brecht
		First produced in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1939, Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children is considered by many to be among the playwright’s best work and one of the most powerful anti-war dramas in history.
		Mother Courage was written in 1938-39, just as World War II was breaking out in Europe.
	www.enotes.com /mother-courage (441 words)

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