Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre 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.
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.
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What is Mother Courage and her Children about?
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.
Ticket Information
Tickets available for performances from 7 May – 27 Jun 2026
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FAQs
Where is Mother Courage and her Children playing?
Mother Courage and her Children is playing at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
Who wrote Mother Courage and her Children?
Mother Courage and her Children is written by Bertolt Brecht.
