Mother Courage

...croaky-voiced, Shaw puts in a bravura performance as the indomitable hawker of wares, rolling her wagon through battlefields. Her Mother Courage has great swagger: a timeless sparky gypsy in ragtag 17th-century skirts and modern army vests.

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Last updated at 9:59 AM on 02nd October 2009 Mother Courage And Her Children (National Theatre, Olivier) Earlier this month, they pulled the plug on the first preview of Bertolt Brecht's coruscating war drama starring Fiona Shaw.

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...Shaw, without alienating people guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 30 September 2009 12.02 BST 'Courageous and cowardly' ... Fiona Shaw as Mother Courage. Photograph: Tristram Kenton Bertolt Brecht was a 20th-century German playwright noted...

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Often I sit back and watch you, amazed," the smitten Chaplain tells Mother Courage in Tony Kushner's bouncy new translation of Brecht's greatest play. He could be speaking for the entire audience in the Olivier, where Fiona Shaw is...

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...is turned into a rock-and-roll circus, signifying almost nothing. Rating * Fiona Shaw in Mother Courage Photo: ALASTAIR MUIR Here she comes again, Mother Courage and her bloody cart, condemning audiences to three-and-a-quarter hours of...

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...played a homeless man.'' Meryl Streep plays herself in this documentary about the Public Theater's 2006 production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage with behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage interspersed with an examination of the...

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...… Fiona Shaw in Mother Courage and Her Children at the Olivier, London. Photograph: Tristram Kenton "I admire vitality," says Mother Courage in Tony Kushner's sparky new translation, "and I no longer care what shape it takes." I'll...

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...shattered traditional notions of Irish lyricism, and revealed the cost and absurdity of war with clarity comparable to Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage. " If you ever say the roughly contemporaneous movie "The Entertainer," Laurence...

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...told, "particular interest" from a nearby balcony. Bless. The show must go on. Or not, in the case of the first public preview of Mother Courage, the National's ambitious new rendition of Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play starring Fiona Shaw.

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...play It is the mother of all roles - and arguments still rage over its true meaning, but Mother Courage is Brecht's greatest work Is Mother Courage and Her Children an anti-war play? It's certainly not a wildly enthusiastic...

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