Jun 12Jun 15, 2025
MÈRE COURAGE
A BUSY AND DISTURBING PANORAMA OF THE WAY WAR DISTORTS, REACHING INTO THE VERY DEPTHS OF A HUMAN BEING.
Anne Fierling is the ultimate expert in the art of crossing enemy lines with her canteen cart. She sells food, beverages and essential items, and the war being waged around her provides her with an invaluable source of income. Such is the heroine, Mother Courage, in one of Bertolt Brecht’s best known plays, set at the time of the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648). The cunning canteen lady does business without asking too many questions. The director Lisaboa Houbrechts sees her as an ambivalent character, both guilty and a victim with her two children killed, both worker and mother. Her production of the complete version of the play including the songs composed by Paul Dessau shows how war is not just a matter for nation states and populations, but also wreaks havoc within the family circle and in the private domain of the female body.
Le spectacle comporte des effets de lumière stroboscopique et des effets sonores intenses
Overtitled in French
Text Bertolt Brecht
Original title of the play Mother Courage and her Children
Directed by Lisaboa Houbrechts
Dramaturgy Dina Dooreman, Erwin Jans
Original music Paul Dessau
Additional music, arrangements and sound design Alain Franco
Musical interpretation Alain Franco, Aydin Ìşleyen
Singing and Saz Aydin Ìşleyen
The following songs from Mère Courage et ses Enfants by Paul Dessau are sung without instrumental accompaniment Mon Capitaine - Chanson de Mère Courage, La Chanson de la grande capitulation, La Chanson de la fraternisation and from Ulm to Metz.
Costume design by Oumar Dicko
Costume design by Anne Fierling and production by Ellada Damianou
Lighting Fabiana Piccioli
Set design Lisaboa Houbrechts, Ralf Nonn
With Laetitia Dosch, Koen De Sutter, Joeri Happel, Aydin Ìşleyen, Alain Franco, Laura De Geest, Lisi Estaras, Pietro Quadrino
Technical Director Carlo Bourguignon
Lighting Director Margareta Andersen
Sound Manager Brecht Beuselinck
Translation into French Irène Bonnaud into Dutch Gerrit Kouwenaar into Hebrew Amit Lebleng into Kurdish Aynur Bozkurt
Surtitles Inge Flore, Ludwig Sander
Production Kvs & Toneelhuis
Coproduction Théâtre de Liège, Le Phénix-Scène nationale de Valenciennes, Théâtre de la Ville-Paris, Perpodium
Avec le soutien de The Taxshelter Of The Belgian Federal Government Via Cronos Invest, The Flemish Community et de la Région Hauts-de-France
Bertolt Brecht est publié et représenté par L’ARCHE – éditeur & agence théâtrale. www.arche-editeur.com
Thu 12 Jun 2025
8:00 PM
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Fri 13 Jun 2025
8:00 PM
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Sat 14 Jun 2025
8:00 PM
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