How to fill the Olivier stage space with out incurring huge cost.

Mother Courage and Her Children

Creating the visual narrative

Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality but a hammer with which to shape it.

Brechtian theatre coming to life

The most important object in the play is Mother Courage's cart.

Art of cart

Why this play now? Why this cast? How did Deborah Warner begin this project?

Deborah Warner's starting point

Follow Fiona through her pre-show warm up and getting read for the show

Fiona Shaw on stage

Motherhood, Commerce and War

Duke Special wrote the music for the show.

Sound and music

Making popular, exciting, entertaining, theatre is fundamental.

A popular play spectacle

Images, articles, interviews and points for discussion

Deborah Warner's Mother Courage and her Children (2009) - Pamphlet

Arts

Performing Arts

This collection comprises of a series of short documentaries created around Deborah Warner's 2009 production of Mother Courage and Her Children. Fiona Shaw in the title role of Tony Kushner’s inventive and vigorous translation of Bertolt Brecht’s uncompromising masterpiece. This collection includes videos on Brecht, the music performed live by Duke Special and a behind the scenes look at Fiona Shaw as she prepares to go on stage.