CLAUS PEYMANN / BERLINER ENSEMBLE MOTHER COURAGE
 
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Porto Alegre, Brazil
Festival Porto Alegre em Cena
Teatro Nuovo
6-8 September 2012

The great classic of Bertolt Brecht’s world theatre and a play which has considerably contributed to the reputation and fame of the BERLINER ENSEMBLE: Helene Weigel’s interpretation of the Courage has made theatre history. Now it is Carmen-Maja Antoni – under the direction of Claus Peymann – pulling the Courage-waggon across the stage. In his “Chronicle from the Thirty Years’ War” – with music by Paul Dessau – Brecht tells the story of the sutler Anna Fierling, called Courage. Together with her three children, two son and the voiceless Kattrin, she struggles to make a living as a business woman at the edge of the war. She loses her funds, her only (late) love and – her children. A woman, assumed to be strong, not fearing war and death, but who can’t manage to keep the balance on the small ridge between war and business. In the end she has to continue pulling her waggon all by herself.


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MUTTER COURAGE UND IHRE KINDER

by Bertolt Brecht
director Claus Peymann
costumes Maria -Elena Amos
dramaturg Jutta Ferbers
musical direction Rainer Böhm
assistant director Miriam Lüttgemann
technical director Stephan Besson
light Ulrich Eh
sound Alexander Bramann

with
Carmen-Maja Antoni (Mutter Courage), Winfried Goos (Eilif), Gudrun Ritter (Die Bäuerin), Roman Kanonik (Der Soldat, Rufer, Der junge Bauer), Christina Drechsler (Kattrin), Martin Seifert (Der Feldprediger), Veit Schubert (Der Feldwebel), Martin Schneider (Der Werber, Der alte Obrist, Erster Soldat, Fähnrich), Michael Rothmann (Schweizerkas), Axel Werner (Der General), Detlef Lutz (Der Bauer), Michael Kinkel (Der mit der Binde, Soldat), Manfred Karge (Der Koch), Roman Kaminski (Der General, Der andere Feldwebel, Der Bauer; Der Feldprediger), Ursula Höpfner-Tabori (Yvette Pottier), Anke Engelsmann (Die Bauersfrau), Anna Graenzer (Kattrin)

musicians
Matthias Erbe/Michael Yokas (violin), Cathrin Pfeifer (accordion), Silke Eberhard (alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet), Katharina Thomas (piano and vocals).