Synopsis
Mother Courage and Her Children - ACTING EDITION
$10.99 Bertolt Brecht trans Eric Bentley
Published by Samuel French Inc
Large Mixed Cast
This is the Acting Edition of one of the world's greatest plays
Set during Europe's Thirty Year War, Brecht's masterpiece was written in 1939 and first produced in Zurich in 1941
In America, it was published in 1941 but didn't reach Broadway till 1963 a memorable production directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Anne Bancroft
It had, of course, by that time been produced to great acclaim throughout the world
When Brecht directed the play in Munich (1950), Eric Bentley, Assistant Director, at his bidding started to translate the play into English
Bentley was to make several translations - the most interesting is published here