Mother Courage and Her Children
Featuring Raul Aranas, Geoffrey Arend, Max Baker, Ato Essandoh, Colleen Fitzpatrick, Glenn Fleshler, Michael Izquierdo, Eugene Jones, Kevin Kline, George Kmeck, Jenifer Lewis, Paco Lozano, Michael Markham, Larry Marshall, Jack Noseworthy, Austin Pendleton, Sean Phillips, Silvestre Rasuk, Meryl Streep, Brittany Underwood, Alexandria Wailes, Frederick Weller, Jade Wu, and Waleed F. Zuaiter
In Brecht’s seminal work we follow Mother Courage over a period of 12 years as one by one her children Kattrin, Eilif and Swiss Cheese are taken away by a vicious war. As Mother Courage seeks to profit from the war that is killing her children, she questions the roles of honesty, virtue and family in the face of a bitter struggle for survival.
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Please note that there will be limited ticket distribution for the following performances: August 15, August 21, August 31 and September 3. For information about the special benefit performance and welcome evening for new partners, please click here.
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There will be an open-captioned performance of Mother Courage and Her Children on September 3rd. Funds for the open-captioned performances of Shakespeare in the Park have been generously provided by a grant from the Theatre Development’s TAP Plus program in cooperation with the New York State Council on the Arts.
The sign language-interpreted performance by Hands On will be August 27th. Sign language-interpreted performances of Shakespeare in the Park are provided in part by 'FJC – A Foundation of Donor Advised Funds'.