REVIEW: The Good Person of Szechwan, Barbican Centre London ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Yury Butusov’s production of Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan at London’s Barbican Theatre
Bertolt Brecht
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich comes to Brockley Jack
Aequitas Theatre Company are to present Bertolt Brecht’s Fear and Misery of the Third Reich at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre
Josie Lawrence to star in Mother Courage and her Children
Multi award-winning actress Josie Lawrence is to star in a new production of Mother Courage and her Children at Southwark Playhouse from November 2 – December 9, 2017. Bertolt Brecht’s classic play is translated by Tony Kushner, the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright whose epic play Angels In America is currently playing at the National Theatre. Josie said: “I first read Mother Courage when I was an 18-year-old drama student and immediately fell in love with the play. Now I feel ready to play her. It’s a major tick on my theatrical bucket list.” In a land ravaged by war, Mother Courage pulls her cart with her three children in the wake of the army, trading with soldiers and attempting to make profit from the war. Widely considered to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century, Mother Courage And Her Children has been described as the greatest anti-war … Read more
