Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht; Tom Leonard (Translated By)
In this new translation by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, the Thirty Years War becomes the War on Terror and Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland speaking the racy nonstandard language of Glasgow. The rest of the cast speak varieties of English language subtly shaded for irony, accent and all the social hierarchies carried by diction and regional language in a land where diction is an index of class.
Bertolt Brecht; Tom Leonard (Translated By)
In this new translation by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, the Thirty Years War becomes the War on Terror and Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland speaking the racy nonstandard language of Glasgow. The rest of the cast speak varieties of English language subtly shaded for irony, accent and all the social hierarchies carried by diction and regional language in a land where diction is an index of class.
Bertolt Brecht; Tom Leonard (Translated By)
In this new translation by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, the Thirty Years War becomes the War on Terror and Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland speaking the racy nonstandard language of Glasgow. The rest of the cast speak varieties of English language subtly shaded for irony, accent and all the social hierarchies carried by diction and regional language in a land where diction is an index of class.