This is the first comprehensive study in English of Brecht's Mother
Courage in production. Peter Thomson provides a detailed account of
Brecht's own production in 1949 and then explores how the play has been
transmitted--from Joan Littlewood's production in 1956 to the Royal
National Theatre in 1995. The book also examines interpretations by Judi
Dench, Glenda Jackson, and Richard Schechner, among others. Seminal
productions from the continent are also analyzed and a final chapter
examines the play's influence on among others, Peter Brook, and
highlights the new urgency of the text in light of the wars in former
Yugoslavia and Uganda.