Mother Courage and Her Children
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Shakespeare’s Globe welcomes revolutionary playwright Brecht to the stage for the very first time with a new production of his anti-war masterpiece, Mother Courage and Her Children.
War rages. Resources are scarce. Hope is a luxury. Mother Courage drags her cart through a wasteland stripped bare by greed and conflict – a profiteer, a survivor, and a mother. She’s learnt to make a living from war, and she’ll sell whatever’s left of humanity to keep herself and her children alive.
In the business of war, every victory costs her something – and eventually, everything.
Filled with live music, biting humour and raw determination, this modern staging of a classic protest piece, translated by Anna Jordan (Succession, Yen, Lost Atoms) and directed by Globe Associate Artist Elle While (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Globe), asks urgent questions about survival, capitalism and complicity.
Globe Artistic Director Michelle Terry (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet, Globe) leads as one of theatre’s mightiest and most complex female characters, in a darkly hedonistic production that will bring the yard vividly to life with fury, empathy and joy-as-rebellion.
Visceral, defiant and ferociously human.
“You want the war to work for you?
You got to feed it something too.”
DETAILS
TICKETS
Galleries (Seating) £85 – £25
Standing £10, £5
This event is on-site in the Globe Theatre
Running time TBC
Part of Summer 2026
Terms and conditions
A £2.50 transaction fee per order applies online and over the telephone. All under 16s must be accompanied by an adult, and cannot be sat separately.
Photography: Felicity McCabe
Art Direction: Kim Garrity
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CAST & CREATIVES
Casting Director
Becky Paris CDG
Composer
James Maloney
Designer
takis
Director
Elle While
Translator
Anna Jordan
Writer
Bertolt Brecht
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ACCESS
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Show dates & times
Wednesday 24th June
2:00 PM