Courage dla Brechta
Courage for Brecht

Summary/Abstract: Beata Guczalska reviews the play Mother Courage and her Children directed by Michał Zadara (Narodowy Theater in Warsaw, premiere: 26.11.2016). She provides an overview of the most important stagings of Brecht’s drama. Her thesis is that postwar trauma in Poland has created two Mother Courages: the Mother of the Holocaust and the Mother of the Occupation Period. Guczalska claims that the most prominent motif in Zadara’s performance is the mother-daughter relationship – this is why she focuses on Barbara Wysocka’s role as Catherine and Danuta Stenka as Mother Courage. She argues that Zadara skillfully translates Brecht’s ideas and postulates into the language of contemporary theater.

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