Mother Courage and Her Children

Fiona Shaw takes the title role in Bertolt Brecht's play in a translation by Tony Kushner.

Deborah Warner directs the production, which will have set designs by Tom Pye, costumes by Ruth Myers, lighting by Jean Kalman, songs by Duke Special, musicscape by Mel Mercier, video by Lysander Ashton and Mark Grimmer, and sound by Andrew Bruce and Nick Lidster.

Mother Courage, one of the astonishing stage creations of the twentieth century, drags her cart across the battlefields, profiteering from a war that destroys her children, one by one.