Premiere of Mother Courage at the Tamási Áron Theatre
We are preparing for the last performance of the season, the world-famous play by Bertolt Brecht, entitled Mother Courage and Her Children in the direction of Máté Hegymegi. The premiere will take place on Friday and Saturday, 28th and 29th June at 19:00 in the Chamber Hall of the theatre.
A car, three children and a mother. (Mother) Courage and her children. They have to drive through war: battlefields, camps, front lines, plundered and devastated landscapes. But they make a living from war. The car is their home, their business, their only possession, the motif of wandering, the constant element of the scenes, the real and symbolic scene of life on the road. And Courage is a tough businesswoman, a hyena of the battlefield, a resourceful character driven by the survival instinct. Destroying others and herself, learning nothing from successive disasters, she races through the 12-scene road movie, accompanied by Paul Dessau’s songs.
Brecht’s play about the 30 Years’ War is extremely topical today in the light of the European and global political situation, but the director’s primary aim is not to take an anti-war stance, but rather to make the issues raised by the play timeless and universal, and to explore the everyday struggles of everyday people. It explores in a general way how to survive in a vulnerable situation, how we can find ourselves in impossible situations out of self-interest, how our choices, our resolutions, our commitments or our silences can have consequences for our lives and our environment.
Judit Garai (dramaturg), Kata Pető (costume designer), Zsolt Markó (lighting designer), Bence Kónya-Ütő (musical director), Botond Szőcs (pianist), Albert Veress (drummer), Edit Veres Bartha (usher) and Magdolna Dobra Mária (prompter) were the director’s collaborators.
