Mère courage
Lisaboa Houbrechts / Toneelhuis & KVS
- Duur: +/- 1h45, in creation
- Location : Salle de la Grande Main
- Languages: Multilingual, with French surtitles
Brecht’s most famous play, and a vibrant indictment against the follies of war, Mother Courage and Her Children tells the tragic fate of Anna Fierling, a traveling saleswoman who follows the armies to sell her goods during the Thirty Years’ War, a devastating European conflict between Catholics and Protestants.
Despite the dangers and death lurking all around her, Mère Courage tirelessly traverses the battlefields to sell food and drinks to the armies of both sides, whose terrible consequences become increasingly inevitable.
While Brecht saw in his character the epitome of opportunism, Lisaboa Houbrechts takes a fresh look at this complex and ambiguous woman with her new creation, simultaneously victim and perpetrator, smuggler and refugee, mother and merchant. For war is not only the concern of nations and peoples, it also rages within families and in the intimacy of the female body.
How does one live in times of war? How does one survive? As a child? As a young woman? As a mother? From these questions, the new prodigy of the Flemish stage stages the text of the German playwright with astonishing modernity, like an aesthetic, moving, and conflictual fable, on the vulnerability and resilience of women.
Calendar
Tarifs
- Plein tarif 23 €
- 65ans+/Carte prof/Groupe10+ 21 €
- -30ans/Pro/Dem.d'emploi 11 €
- Groupe scolaire 8 €
- -15ans 7 €
- Etudiants Conservatoires Art de la parole 5 €
Distributions
text BERTOLT BRECHT
original title Mother Courage and her children
direction LISABOA HOUBRECHTS
dramaturgy DINA DOOREMAN, ERWIN JANS
actors LUBNA AZABAL, KOEN DE SUTTER, JOERI HAPPEL, AYDIN ÌşLEYEN, ALAIN FRANCO, LAURA DE GEEST, LISI ESTARAS, PIETRO QUADRINO
original music PAUL DESSAU
music arrangement, additional music & sound design ALAIN FRANCO
performance music ALAIN FRANCO & AYDIN ÌşLEYEN
vocals and saz AYDIN ÌşLEYEN
The following songs from Paul Dessau from Mother Courage and her children will be sung without musical guidance MON CAPITAINE – CHANSON DE MÈRE COURAGE, LA CHANSON DE LA GRANDE CAPITULATION, LA CHANSON DE LA FRATERNISATION ET DE ULM À METZ
costumes OUMAR DICKO
execution costume Lubna ELLADA DAMIANOU
light design FABIANA PICCIOLI
set design LISABOA HOUBRECHTS & RALF NONN
production manager ELLA DE GREGORIIS
stage manager CARLO BOURGUIGNON
light technics MARGARETA ANDERSEN
sound technics BRECHT BEUSELINCK
surtitling INGE FLORE
translation in French : Irène Bonnaud (Bertolt Brecht est publié et représenté par L’ARCHE – éditeur & agence théâtrale. www.arche-editeur.com), in het Nederlands: Gerrit Kouwenaar. Hebrew : Amit Lebleng. Kurdish : Aynur Bozkurt.
stage technician CHRISTOPHE GEENS
intern assistant direction DAAN HAEVERANS & LUDWIG SANDER
production KVS & TONEELHUIS
coproduction THÉÂTRE DE LIÈGE, LE PHÉNIX-SCÈNE NATIONALE DE VALENCIENNES, THÉÂTRE DE LA VILLE PARIS, PERPODIUM
with the support THE TAXSHELTER OF THE BELGIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT VIA CRONOS INVEST, THE FLEMISH COMMUNITY & REGIO HAUTS-DE-France
