Victoria Theatre Guild

MOTHER COURAGE
and Her Children

By Bertolt Brecht
Directed by Lina de Guevara

Produced by arrangement with Stefan Brecht, through Fitelson, Lasky, Aslan & Couture.
Music used with permission of Samuel French Canada, Inc.

Director: LINA DE GUEVARA
Set Designer: BILL ADAMS
Lighting & Sound Designer: GEORGE SCOTT
Costume Designers: JILL McFARLANE, SUSIE EDWARDS JIM HILL
Music Director: JIM HILL
Props Designer: DEANNA STOREY

CAST

Anna Fierling (Mother Courage) WENDY MERK
Kattrin ALLYSON McGRANE
Eilif MATT CARLSON
Swiss Cheese JEFFREY CHAND
The Cook BILL ADAMS
The Chaplain ERIC GRACE
Yvette Pottier ALLISON MARCACCINI
The Recruiting Officer/The Regimental Clerk/The Second Soldier KEVIN STINSON
The Sergeant/Soldier in Fur Coat/
First Soldier VINCENT WELLS
The Commander-in-Chief/ Lieutenant ANDREW LUKAT
The Armourer/Eilif’s Guard/Mercenary BRIAN BOWMAN
A Soldier/A Peasant JACOB BUTLER
The Man with a Patch/Third Soldier/Eilif’s Guard TIM HARDY
A Very Old Colonel/Older Soldier PETER SAUNDERS
Young Soldier MICHAEL GOUDGE
Farmer’s Wife EMILY COHEN
The Singer ALLISON WARD
Sergeant/Peasant CRAIG WILSON
Peasant’s Wife DEBORAH FOLEY
Peasant’s Son GRANT WILLIAMSON
Peasant’s Son MIKAEL ALBUQUERQUE

SETTING

The play is set between 1624 and 1636, during two wars: the Polish-Swedish War and the Thirty Years War.

HISTORICAL NOTE

The Thirty Years’ War (1618 – 1648) was part of the political upheaval that followed the Reformation which had divided Christian Europe into Protestant and Catholic states. In the play, the Swedes stand for Protestantism (the Second Finnish Regiment being part of the Swedish Army), and the Imperial Forces represent Catholicism, though it should be stressed at the outset that Brecht presents the religious conflict as a mere pretext for the war and insists that the underlying motive of the war leaders is profit.

REVIEW

CBC Theatre Reviews: Mother Courage April 25, 2000 Langham Court by Robert Mitchell